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

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

Published: 07 May ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Updated: 07 Might ,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 the harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives for the reason that Taliban seized energy.

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

“Those ladies who usually are not too outdated or young must cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a purpose to avoid provocation when assembly males who will not be mahram (grownup shut male relations),” the decree stated.

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

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