Taliban impose sharia in Hangu
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Taliban impose sharia in Hangu
* Women to stay home except for medical treatment
* Ban on TV, CDs and video centres
* ‘Taliban courts’ to resolve local issues
By Abdul Saboor Khan
HANGU: Taliban announced the enforcement of sharia in the Shakai, Sheikhan and Mulakhel areas of Hangu district in the NWFP on Friday.
The decision was made in a jirga and announced in mosques during the Friday sermons, and comes days after a similar decree in the bordering Orakzai Agency.
Women have been stopped from visiting bazaars, other than for medical treatment, and that too only if they are accompanied by an elderly male relative. TV, CDs and video centres have been banned.
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Here is more on the Taliban's resurgence. The recent announcements of 20,000 more American troops being deployed to Afghanistan means there will soon be a fresh assault on the Taliban, and al Qaeda.
FROM MID-DAY.COM:
Taliban carries out selective killings in Swat
Swat Valley:
Holding sway over the restive Swat valley, Taliban have begun selective killings, targetting dancers, politicians and paramilitary personnel.
Six persons were killed by the Taliban yesterday in troubled northwestern Swat valley, where violence by militants has claimed hundreds of lives since last year.
The mutilated bodies of two Frontier Constabulary personnel were found by the roadside near Mingora, the main town of Swat district yesterday, media reports said today. The throats of both men were slit. They had been kidnapped earlier from a police post.
A note found near the bodies said "all security personnel will face the same fate".
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