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

A lady sits with women carrying burqas outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photograph: Reuters)

Published: 07 Could ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Updated: 07 Might ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

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

“They need to put on 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 perform in Kabul.

“These girls who usually are not too old or younger should cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, in order to keep away from provocation when assembly males who aren't mahram (adult shut male kinfolk),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if ladies had no necessary work exterior it was “higher they keep at home.”

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