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

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

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

“They need to put on 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 perform in Kabul.

“These women who will not be too outdated or younger must cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, to be able to keep away from provocation when assembly men who usually are not mahram (grownup shut male kinfolk),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if women had no important work exterior it was “higher they stay at residence.”

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