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

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

Revealed: 07 Could ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Updated: 07 Could ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

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

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

“These women who usually are not too outdated or young should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, in an effort to keep away from provocation when assembly males who are not mahram (grownup shut male relatives),” the decree stated.

It added that if women had no necessary work outdoors it was “better they stay at home.”

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