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

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

Published: 07 May ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Up to date: 07 Might ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

Afghanistan’s supreme chief and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the country’s ladies to wear 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 wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is conventional and respectful,” mentioned a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was released by Taliban authorities at a operate in Kabul.

“These women who usually are not too old or young should cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, with the intention to avoid provocation when assembly men who aren't mahram (adult close male relations),” the decree said.

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

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