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

A girl sits with girls sporting burqas outside 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 the harshest controls imposed on girls’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

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

“These women who usually are not too outdated or young should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, as a way to avoid provocation when assembly men who aren't mahram (grownup close male kinfolk),” the decree mentioned.

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

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