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

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

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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 for the reason that Taliban seized power.

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

“These ladies who should not too outdated or younger must cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, so as to avoid provocation when assembly men who are not mahram (grownup shut male family),” the decree said.

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

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