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

A woman sits with girls sporting burqas outdoors a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photograph: Reuters)

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

“They should wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is conventional and respectful,” mentioned a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was launched by Taliban authorities at a perform in Kabul.

“These girls who should not too previous or young should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, to be able to keep away from provocation when assembly men who are not mahram (adult shut male relations),” the decree stated.

It added that if girls had no necessary work outdoors it was “higher they keep at house.”

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