Burqa shops get busy one year after the Taliban takeover

Afghanistan: Burqa business exponentially increased after the Taliban ordered all women to cover their faces in public in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, on August 16, 2022. Afghan Multimedia Agency

According to an Afghan burqa shopkeeper, Abdullah added; that before burqa trade was at least 80 percent in the Bazar but now it has increased to 100 percent, the Bazar is ongoing, and the burqa trade is good now than past.

Today I come here to buy a burqa, the burqa is our religion and Islamic culture and custom, it is our Hijab or veil, it is all Afghans culture which used since ancient or a long period, we proud of it, we wear it yesterday, and wear it today and will put it on in future too, a shopkeeper said.

Mihrab who is Nangahar’s resident explained; Due to the frozen money, they froze money of the Afghan nation from an address of a powerful country that is America, we all suffer severe economic hardship which is very difficult situation for all people of Afghanistan.

My message to the world is to recognize our government and to release the money that America or another related bank has frozen, as well as demand relaunch of trades, and responsible must create facilities for traders, and the world embassies must be reopened, and relaunch their activities again in Kabul, Abdul Samad, burqa trader added.