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

A woman sits with ladies carrying burqas exterior a hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan October 5, 2021. (File picture: Reuters)

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Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the country’s girls to put on the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest controls imposed on girls’s lives for the reason that Taliban seized energy.

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

“Those girls who aren't too outdated or younger must cowl their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives, with a view to avoid provocation when assembly men who will not be mahram (adult close male relatives),” the decree said.

It added that if girls had no essential work exterior it was “higher they stay at residence.”

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