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

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

Printed: 07 Might ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Updated: 07 Might ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

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

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

“Those ladies who aren't too outdated or young should cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, with the intention to keep away from provocation when meeting men who should not mahram (grownup close male kin),” the decree mentioned.

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

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