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

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

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

“They need to wear 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 perform in Kabul.

“Those ladies who are usually not too old or young must cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, in order to avoid provocation when meeting males who usually are not mahram (adult shut male family members),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if women had no essential work outside it was “better they keep at residence.”

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