A viral video of a Chinese youth mocking burqa-clad women in Islamabad’s F-10 Markaz has triggered a national debate on ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching the all-enveloping blue burqa with a face mesh that has become a symbol of the Taliban's oppression of women. Since their return to power in ...

Although the Koran refers to modest dress, it doesn’t command women to cover themselves from head to toe - AFP Photo/Mauricio Lima Mothin Ali, deputy leader of the Green Party, has accused Robert ...

A WOMAN who wore a full burqa into an Australian court should have been asked to show her face, a law lecturer says. Dr Nicky Jones of University of Southern Queensland said magistrates and judges ...

The Taliban authorities in Afghanistan ordered female patients, caretakers and staff to wear a burka – a full Islamic veil - to enter public health facilities in the western city of Herat, medical ...

Pauline Hanson has called for Australia to ban women from wearing the burqa after Italy joined several other nations in forbidding the religious covering. The One Nation leader took to social media on ...

What an image. No wonder it went viral. A woman in a burka strides across a parliamentary chamber, face and body entirely concealed, but legs – and high heels – very much on display. The faces you can ...

Amid demands by some opposition parties that the Election Commission withdraw its direction to verify identity of burqa-clad women at Bihar's polling stations, the EC on Thursday defended its move ...

The Taliban has barred female patients, visitors, and medical staff who do not wear the all-encompassing burqa from entering public hospitals in western Afghanistan, the latest restriction by the hard ...