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

A woman sits with women carrying burqas outdoors 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 girls to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of many harshest controls imposed on girls’s lives for the reason that Taliban seized energy.

“They need to put on 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.

“These girls who should not too previous or young must cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with the intention to keep away from provocation when assembly men who will not be mahram (adult close male kin),” the decree mentioned.

It added that if girls had no necessary work outside it was “better they keep at house.”

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