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

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

Printed: 07 Could ,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 ladies to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of many harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives because the Taliban seized energy.

“They should put on 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 operate in Kabul.

“These women who will not be too previous or young should cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, so as to avoid provocation when assembly males who will not be mahram (adult shut male kinfolk),” the decree said.

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

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