Taliban leader orders women to wear all-covering burqa in public: Decree

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

Revealed: 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 nation’s girls to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on women’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

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

“These girls who should not too old or young must cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, with the intention to avoid provocation when meeting men who should not mahram (grownup shut male family),” the decree stated.

It added that if women had no essential work exterior it was “better they keep at house.”

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