AFGHANISTAN’S supreme leader and Taliban chief today ordered the country’s women to wear the all-covering burqa in public – one of the harshest controls imposed on women’s lives since the hard-line Islamists seized power.
“They should wear a chadori (head-to-toe burqa) as it is traditional and respectful,” said a decree issued by Hibatullah Akhundzada that was released by Taliban authorities at a function in Kabul.
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