Sharia to be law 80km from Islamabad
Taliban FlagI suppose if the Taliban threaten to attack the capitol, Islamabad, that the government will cede control there also. You just have to wonder if the government of President Asif Ali Zardari is just a front to allow the takeover by the Taliban, because he certainly is doing nothing to root out the terrorists.
I really think it's time for the U.S. to take protective custody of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, before they fall into the hands of the Taliban and or al Qaeda.
FROM TIMESOFINDIA.INDIATIMES.COM:
Sharia to be law 80km from Islamabad
17 Feb 2009, 0607 hrs IST, TIMES NEWS NETWORK & AGENCIES
PESHAWAR/NEW DELHI: The Taliban just got entrenched closer to India. Barely 48 hours after Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari warned that Taliban was "trying to take over Pakistan'', his government appeased the ultra Islamic extremist group by signing an agreement on Monday with pro-Taliban leader Sufi Mohammad to impose Islamic law, sharia, in Swat in return for a 10-day ceasefire by the Taliban. ( Watch )
Zardari's critics described the pact as capitulation before the Taliban, which calls the shots in large swathes of the country. The US frowned at it, warning that such moves allowed the Taliban to regroup and rearm. US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke said on reaching Delhi that Swat was a reminder that "US, Pakistan and India face an enemy that poses direct threats to our leadership, our capitals and our people.''
Swat is just 80 miles northwest of Islamabad. Over the past few years, Tehrik-i-Taliban, the local Taliban outfit there led by Mullah Fazlullah - better known as Mullah Radio because of his illegal FM channel - has gained virtual control over the area. More than 200 girls' schools have been destroyed in a campaign against female education, music shops have been burned, tens of thousands have fled their homes, government offices been ransacked, while the security forces have grudgingly conceded that the government is fighting a losing battle.
The 10-day pause in hostilities, during which Mullah Radio would monitor the rollout of Islamic law in Swat, is not expected to lead to a longer peace. Experts say that as the Taliban has dictated terms in this pact, it is only a matter of time before it raises the pitch of its demands. Although the agreement has been signed by Sufi Mohammad, who is Radio Mullah's father-in-law, reports say that Radio Mullah's embrace of extreme Islam is more fierce than his father-in-law's.
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