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

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

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

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 girls’s lives since the Taliban seized power.

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

“Those ladies who should not too previous or younger should cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a view to keep away from provocation when assembly men who are usually not mahram (adult shut male relatives),” the decree mentioned.

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

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