Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief on Saturday ordered the country’s women to wear the all-covering burqa in public - one of the harshest
Highlights
- Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief orders women to wear all-covering burqa in public: Decree.
- Decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was released by Taliban authorities at a function in Kabul.
- It is one of the harshest controls imposed on women’s lives since Taliban seized power.
- During their first regime between 1996 and 2001, the Taliban imposed similar restrictions on women’s lives.
- It added that if women had no important work outside it was “better they stay at home’�s’re better they stay in the house.
- It also said women who are not too old or young must cover their face, except the eyes, as per sharia directives.