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

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

Printed: 07 Might ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Updated: 07 Could ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

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

“They need to put on a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is conventional and respectful,” mentioned a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was launched by Taliban authorities at a operate in Kabul.

“These girls who usually are not too previous or younger should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a purpose to keep away from provocation when meeting men who are usually not mahram (adult shut male family),” the decree said.

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

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