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

A woman sits with girls wearing burqas outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photo: Reuters)

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

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

“Those girls who aren't too old or younger should cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, in an effort to avoid provocation when assembly males who will not be mahram (grownup shut male kinfolk),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if ladies had no vital work outdoors it was “higher they keep at home.”

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