Taliban leader orders women to wear all-covering burqa in public: Decree

A woman sits with women carrying burqas exterior a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photograph: Reuters)

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Afghanistan’s supreme chief and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the nation’s girls to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of many harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

“They should put on a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it's conventional and respectful,” mentioned a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was released by Taliban authorities at a function in Kabul.

“These ladies who will not be too previous or younger should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with the intention to avoid provocation when meeting men who usually are not mahram (grownup close male relatives),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if girls had no important work exterior it was “higher they stay at home.”

During their first regime between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban imposed comparable restrictions on women.