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

A woman sits with girls sporting burqas outdoors a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photo: Reuters)

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

“They need to wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it's traditional and respectful,” mentioned a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was launched by Taliban authorities at a function in Kabul.

“These ladies who usually are not too outdated or younger must cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, in an effort to keep away from provocation when assembly males who should not mahram (grownup close male relatives),” the decree stated.

It added that if ladies had no vital work outdoors it was “better they keep at home.”

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