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

A lady sits with girls carrying burqas exterior a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File picture: 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 many harshest controls imposed on girls’s lives since the Taliban seized energy.

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

“These ladies who should not too previous or young should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a view to keep away from provocation when meeting males who usually are not mahram (grownup close male relations),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if girls had no vital work outdoors it was “higher they keep at residence.”

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