AFGHAN TALIBAN ORDER ALL AFGHAN WOMEN TO WEAR BURQA IN PUBLIC

Sheikh Khalid Al-Hanafi, Taliban’s Acting Minister of Enforcement of Good and Prohibition of Evil.

Sat 07 May 2022:

Afghanistan‘s Taliban rulers on Saturday ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public.

“We want our sisters to live with dignity and safety,” said Khalid Hanafi, acting minister for the Taliban’s vice and virtue ministry.

“For all dignified Afghan women wearing Hajib is necessary and the best Hajib is chadori (the head-to-toe burqa) which is part of our tradition and is respectful,” said Shir Mohammad, an official from the vice and virtue ministry in a statement.

The Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice read a decree from the group’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada at a press conference in Kabul.

د امر بالمعروف او نهی عن المنکر وزارت سرپرست شیخ خالد الحنفي: موږ غواړو چې خویندې مو په عزت سره په خوندي ډول ژوند وکړي او اسلام چې کوم حقوق ښځې ته ورکړي بل هېڅ دين نه دي ورکړي. pic.twitter.com/XyAY9sENIw

— Bakhtar News Agency (@BakhtarNA) May 7, 2022

“We want our sisters to live with dignity and safety,” said Khalid Hanafi, acting minister for the all-male ministry – which replaced the country’s women’s ministry after the militants took control in August 2021.

It also states that if women have no important work to be done outside, it is better for them to stay at home.

“Islamic principles and Islamic ideology are more important to us than anything else,” Mr Hanafi said.

The decree adds that the ideal face covering is the blue burka, which shows only the eyes.

Shir Mohammad, an official from the vice and virtue ministry, said: “For all dignified Afghan women wearing Hajib is necessary and the best Hajib is chadori (the head-to-toe burka) which is part of our tradition and is respectful.

“Those women who are not too old or young must cover their face, except the eyes.”

Most women in Afghanistan wear a headscarf for religious reasons, but many in urban areas such as Kabul do not cover their faces.

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