Burqas are being sold in Kabul

Burqa sales are booming in the Afghan capital, Kabul, as the Taliban advance. Aref sells burqas in a market there. In the current situation of the country, sales have increased in Aref’s stores. If you see Aref’s shop from a distance, you may think that there is a blue curtain hanging there. But when approached, it is understood that there are innumerable blue burqas hanging on the hook of the shop.
According to media reports, the country’s young and old have begun to increase their burqa stockpiles after the Taliban warned of the imposition of strict Sharia law in the occupied territories. As the Taliban surround Kabul, women there are also preparing to deal with the situation. Aref said that in the past, women from different provinces were their main buyers. Now women in urban areas are also buying burqas from them. Aaliyah is such a buyer. He was bargaining with another shopkeeper to reduce the price of the burqa. He said the price of burqa last year was 200 Afghanis. It has now risen to 2,000 to 3,000 Afghanis. The price of burqas is also thought to have risen as the number of women from different parts of the country has increased in Kabul. For decades, the traditional Afghan burqa has been the identity of Afghan women around the world. This traditional burqa is blue most of the time. The burqa, made of heavy fabric, is designed to cover the wearer from head to toe. Borkar has a thin mesh-like cloth near his eyes, through which the wearer can see the outside view, but no one outside can see the wearer. When the Taliban government came to power in the 1990s, girls were strictly instructed to wear such burqas. If anyone disobeyed this order, they would have to be punished in public at the hands of the Taliban’s moral police. After the fall of the Taliban in 2001, many continued to wear the burqa for religious and traditional reasons, but millions of Afghan women rejected the burqa as a symbol of the country’s new era. However, the situation changed this year when the Taliban took control of one important city after another after the withdrawal of foreign troops from Afghanistan.