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

A girl sits with ladies wearing burqas exterior a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photo: Reuters)

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

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

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

“These ladies who are not too previous or young must cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, with the intention to keep away from provocation when meeting men who will not be mahram (adult shut male relatives),” the decree stated.

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

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