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

A girl sits with women wearing burqas outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File picture: Reuters)

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

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

“These women who usually are not too old or younger must cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a view to avoid provocation when assembly males who should not mahram (adult shut male kin),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if girls had no important work outdoors it was “better they stay at house.”

During their first regime between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban imposed related restrictions on women.