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

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

Revealed: 07 May ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Updated: 07 Could ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

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

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

“These ladies who should not too outdated or young must cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, in an effort to avoid provocation when assembly males who usually are not mahram (adult shut male kin),” the decree said.

It added that if women had no necessary work outside it was “better they keep at dwelling.”

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