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

A girl sits with girls carrying burqas outdoors a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photo: Reuters)

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

Afghanistan’s supreme chief and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the nation’s women to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on girls’s lives since the Taliban seized energy.

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

“Those ladies who aren't too old or young should cowl their face, except 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 mentioned.

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

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