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

A girl sits with girls carrying burqas exterior 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 country’s ladies to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of many harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives for the reason that Taliban seized power.

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

“Those girls who aren't too previous or young must cowl their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, as a way to keep away from provocation when assembly men who aren't mahram (adult shut male relatives),” the decree said.

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

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