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

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

Published: 07 Could ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Up to date: 07 Could ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

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 girls’s lives since the Taliban seized energy.

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

“Those ladies who aren't too old or younger should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a view to keep away from provocation when meeting men who will not be mahram (adult shut male relatives),” the decree said.

It added that if girls had no necessary work outdoors it was “better they keep at house.”

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