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

A lady sits with girls sporting burqas exterior 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 country’s ladies 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's traditional and respectful,” said a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was launched by Taliban authorities at a perform in Kabul.

“Those girls who are usually not too outdated or young should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, in an effort to keep away from provocation when meeting men who will not be mahram (adult shut male kinfolk),” the decree said.

It added that if ladies had no vital work outside it was “better they keep at home.”

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