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

A girl sits with women wearing burqas exterior a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File photograph: Reuters)

Published: 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 nation’s girls to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on girls’s lives since the Taliban seized power.

“They need to put on a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is traditional and respectful,” stated a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was launched by Taliban authorities at a function in Kabul.

“Those ladies who will not be too previous or young should cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, to be able to avoid provocation when assembly males who are not mahram (grownup shut male family),” the decree said.

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

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