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

A girl sits with ladies 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 women to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of many harshest controls imposed on women’s lives for the reason that Taliban seized power.

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

“Those girls who aren't too old or younger should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, so as to avoid provocation when assembly men who usually are not mahram (grownup close male relatives),” the decree said.

It added that if ladies had no vital work exterior it was “higher they keep at dwelling.”

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