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

A woman sits with ladies carrying burqas exterior a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File picture: Reuters)

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

Afghanistan’s supreme chief and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the nation’s girls to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

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

“Those ladies who usually are not too previous or younger must cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, to be able to keep away from provocation when meeting men who aren't mahram (grownup close male family),” the decree mentioned.

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

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