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

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

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

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

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

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

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