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

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

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

“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 launched by Taliban authorities at a perform in Kabul.

“Those ladies who are usually not too old or young should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a view 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 essential work exterior it was “better they keep at home.”

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