Taliban Orders Women to Wear Burqa in Public Again
- Women must cover entire face to avoid ‘seduction’: Taliban
- Female civil servants to lose jobs if they fail to obey order
Burqa-clad women in a market in Kabul.
Photographer: Hector Retamal/AFP/Getty Images
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Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government ordered women to wear a burqa in public areas and government institutions, in a re-emergence of the head-to-toe covering less than a year after it took control of the country.
The legal guardians of women who refuse to comply with the order face penalties such as detentions and prosecutions, according to a Taliban decree on Saturday. Female civil servants will be sacked for failing to obey, it said.