An Afghan salesman displays a burqa in his shop at a marketplace in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Ali Khara
KABUL (Reuters) - Many women in the Afghan capital are delaying a return to fully covering their faces in public in defiance of orders from Islamist Taliban rulers, others are staying at home and some have been wearing COVID-19 face masks anyway.
The Taliban, who swept back to power as the government collapsed, on Saturday ordered women to cover their faces in public, a return to their past hardline rule and an escalation of restrictions on girls and women that are causing anger at home and abroad.
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