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

A woman sits with girls wearing burqas outside 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 the harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives because the Taliban seized power.

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

“These girls who will not be too old or young must cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with the intention to avoid provocation when assembly men who are usually not mahram (grownup close male kin),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if ladies had no necessary work exterior it was “higher they stay at house.”

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