Sunday Mirror

Taliban bring back burqas

- BY KAREN ROCKETT

THE Taliban has ordered all women in Afghanista­n to wear burqas.

The hardliners seized power again in August and banned females from secondary education.

Woman must now don the head-to-toe garment in public. Afghanista­n’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada said: “It is traditiona­l and respectful.”

The strict move evokes similar curbs from when the Taliban last ruled between 1996 and 2001.

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