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

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

Revealed: 07 Might ,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 ladies to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on girls’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

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

“These women who are usually not too previous or younger must cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, to be able to keep away from provocation when assembly men who aren't mahram (adult shut male relatives),” the decree stated.

It added that if girls had no important work outside it was “higher they stay at home.”

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