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

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

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

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

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

“Those ladies who usually are not too previous or younger should cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a purpose to keep away from provocation when assembly males who are usually not mahram (adult close male relatives),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if girls had no necessary work outside it was “higher they stay at house.”

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