We were told to go home and put on the burka.

This may be the one situation in American life just right for the burka.

Already, she said, one great achievement was to take off the burka.

No one knew it was her since she wore a burka.

"Because of the situation, all female teachers should wear the burka going to and from school," she said.

Women are no longer required to wear the burka, but they do anyway.

The burka was a long face veil which reached almost to the ground.

How would you react if your daughter wanted to wear the burka?

"The burka will disappear in its own time," he added.

He's on the same course, though I hear he is wearing a burka to avoid being identified.

She had never worn a burka before the Taliban victory.

"If you knew how I hate this burka," she said.

"All right I stood up and struggled into the burka.

So being a woman in power sends a signal: Come out and take off your burka if you want to?

At the risk of a severe thrashing, few women would any longer chance being seen without a burka.

Many of the burka merchants opened their shops when the Taliban came to power.

There is also the solution to eliminate the problems completely: wear a burka!

The possibility of banning the burka was discussed in the cabinet.

I hid them in the folds of the burka and ate no more.

I pulled the burka back on and lay quiet, staring into the darkness.

Many women wore the burka, a veil covering them from head to ankle.

"The Taliban are gone, yes, but our own community also enforces the burka."

A dirty burka signals a particularly desperate form of poverty.

Well, the burka is not the big problem.

Other images, including that of a woman in a burka being executed, remain similarly unidentified.

Especially if the person under the burqa turns out to be a woman.

We were getting back in the car and a young woman wearing a burqa is walking with her mother.

None of this means I think there's anything good about wearing a burqa.

Women also did not have to wear the Afghan burqa.

As for a burqa being empowering - well, I see what she means.

He also made public statements about the burqa and Islam.

Should Britain be thinking about a ban on the burqa?

This makes the burqa a symbol of rank as well.

Even with a burqa draped over her head she still looks chic.

"Those people who walked under burqas, they were not all ladies," he said.

However, after this the husband usually decides if his wife should continue to wear a burqa.

The ban did not go ahead but debate about the burqa continues.

Ms. Sawyer showed that she looks good even in a burqa.

Not wearing the burqa brings shame on herself and family.

Burqas are intimidating, a huge security threat, and they have no place in our society.

Smiling at strangers in a car from behind her burqa good God can you imagine!

The captain suspected that men were hiding under the burqas, too.

In some parts of the world, women are forced to cover their whole bodies with burqas - is that next?

The French government stated that the burqa damaged community relations.

The burqa fully covers the woman and has only a slit for her eyes to see.

Consequently, women wearing the burqa often have difficulty even seeing where they are going.

From 9 this morning , would you ban the burqa?

It is also known as burqa in other languages.

That's why he has his woman locked-up tight inside a burqa.

One may feel ridiculous to see the burqa clad women visiting the place.