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

A woman sits with ladies carrying burqas outside 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 women to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of many harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

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

“These women who will not be too previous or younger must cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with the intention to avoid provocation when meeting males who will not be mahram (adult close male family members),” the decree said.

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

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