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

A woman sits with girls wearing burqas outdoors a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File picture: Reuters)

Revealed: 07 Might ,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 ladies to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on ladies’s lives for the reason that Taliban seized energy.

“They need to wear 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 operate in Kabul.

“These ladies who aren't too outdated or younger should cover their face, besides the eyes, as per sharia directives, as a way to keep away from provocation when meeting males who usually are not mahram (grownup shut male kin),” the decree said.

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

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