Women in Kyrgyzstan will be fined for wearing a full-body niqab under a new plan that is supported by the country's official Muslim governing body. The authority says the garments could hide ...

Showing your face is a sin Nasima, an Afghan woman in her forties "Only older women wear a burka," said Razia Khaliq, as she embroidered one at a workshop in Mazar-i-Sharif. Khaliq began wearing ...

Australia’s Muslim burka-wearing women might be subjected to fingerprinting in order to identify them. According to a new proposal, anyone who won’t show their face may have to provide a ...

Young, urban women in Afghanistan are increasingly ditching ... “The new generation would never accept wearing a burka, because of the design and colour,” said 23-year-old Tahmina Adel in ...

Six countries in Europe have banned the burka in public spaces ... Uttar Pradesh, ruled that women shouldn’t wear “vulgar Western” clothes to help prevent sexual harassment.