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

A lady sits with girls carrying burqas exterior 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 girls to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

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

“These girls who are not too old or younger should cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a purpose to avoid provocation when assembly males who are usually not mahram (grownup shut male family members),” the decree stated.

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

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