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

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

Revealed: 07 May ,2022: 11:58 AM GST Updated: 07 Could ,2022: 12:53 PM GST

Afghanistan’s supreme chief 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 because the Taliban seized power.

“They need to 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 function in Kabul.

“These women who will not be too old or young should cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a purpose to avoid provocation when meeting males who are usually not mahram (grownup shut male kin),” the decree said.

It added that if girls had no vital work outside it was “better they stay at dwelling.”

During their first regime between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban imposed similar restrictions on girls.