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

A girl sits with women sporting burqas outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photo: Reuters)

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Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the nation’s women to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on women’s lives since the Taliban seized power.

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

“Those ladies who are usually not too outdated or young must cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, in order to avoid provocation when meeting males who aren't mahram (adult shut male kinfolk),” the decree stated.

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

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