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

A lady sits with girls carrying burqas outside 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 many harshest controls imposed on women’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

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

“Those women who usually are not too outdated or young must cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a purpose to keep away from provocation when assembly males who usually are not mahram (adult shut male kin),” the decree said.

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

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