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

A woman sits with ladies wearing burqas outside a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File picture: Reuters)

Published: 07 May ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Up to date: 07 May ,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 girls’s lives since the Taliban seized energy.

“They need to 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.

“Those ladies who should not too outdated or young must cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a view to avoid provocation when meeting men who are usually not mahram (adult close male kin),” the decree said.

It added that if girls had no essential work outdoors it was “higher they keep at house.”

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