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

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

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Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the nation’s girls to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives for the reason that Taliban seized energy.

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

“These girls who usually are not too previous or younger must cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a purpose to keep away from provocation when assembly males who are usually not mahram (grownup close male relations),” the decree mentioned.

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

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