Jowhar — The Islamic administration of Harakat Al-shabab Mujahideen in Middle Shabelle region has ordered the women in Jowhar town 90 kilometers north of the Somali capital Mogadishu to take veil, officials said on Wednesday.

Sheik Ali Ghedi, a deputy head of the Islamic administration for the security affairs told reporters that all the women in Jowhar town are required to take the veil with in 10 days adding that any one who refuses the commands will be brought before the court and take legal step based on the sharia law.

Reports say that there are also other orders from the administration regarding to the people in the town to close their business centers by the time of the praying and not to construct the public buildings in the town.

The administration had issued like these commands earlier, but the people in the town did follow and it unclear how they would take these instructions.