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

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

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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 girls’s lives for the reason that Taliban seized energy.

“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 launched by Taliban authorities at a function in Kabul.

“Those ladies who should not too outdated or younger should cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, in an effort to avoid provocation when meeting males who aren't mahram (adult close male kin),” the decree said.

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

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