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

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

Published: 07 May ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Updated: 07 Could ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

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 many harshest controls imposed on girls’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

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

“Those girls who are usually not too previous or young should cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a purpose to avoid provocation when meeting males who will not be mahram (adult close male relations),” the decree stated.

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

Throughout their first regime between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban imposed similar restrictions on ladies.