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“Who wants to be beheaded first?” Women Shoppers Missing in SWAT
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by René | March 18, 2009 at 12:06 pm
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MINGORA: It has been more than a month since the government and the Tehreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) signed a peace deal in Swat but the shopkeepers at Cheena Market, once the busiest in Mingora city, are still waiting for female shoppers.
The Swat-based Taliban had banned females from going to markets and schools for education. However, girls are back in schools after Taliban leader Fazlullah agreed to a peace bid by his father-in-law, TNSM’s chief Sufi Muhammad but women are still avoiding going to bazaars.
“Business has still not returned to normal despite a marked change in the situation,” a shopkeeper, Ikramullah Khan, told Daily Times.
The reason for women staying away from the once popular place is obvious – threats from the Taliban.
On March 8, a bearded man, who the shopkeepers believed to be a Taliban, pulled out a dagger in a shop and said, “Who wants to be beheaded first?”
The incident was enough to frighten the women and prevent them from going to the markets.
“I used to make a good profit when the Taliban had not banned women from going to markets,” a shopkeeper said.
Source Pakistan Daily Times
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at 13:42 on March 18th, 2009
What a bunch of nice folks.
at 13:55 on March 18th, 2009
why dont the American drones start operating here as well? Pakistan goverment can continue the token protest.. the deal can remain intact while these butchers will get the feel of real fear.
shame, I dont know how much more people have to suffer and die before they openly stand up against this religious mafia... it will be interesting to see what the recently "freed Jusice" and the restored chief justice will have to say about this.. will the sharia law and normal Pakistani law come to blows with each other? maybe some Mullah will soon accounce a fatwa against the supreme court as well.
at 16:29 on March 18th, 2009
at 19:03 on March 18th, 2009
Scary and disgusting.
at 10:15 on March 19th, 2009
Just imagine this happening at your local market? local small neighborhood store?
What does it take to stand up to a group of armed dangerous mad criminals, serial killing, serial raping, group crime sprees? supposedly in the name of a religion.
Just imagine the huge respect for this religion, even when criminals use it to kill, rape, rob, pillage, to allow these criminals to rule.
And what do you do when your own government supports with millions of dollars, refuses to engage in the effort to suppress these criminals and finally makes truces with them?
at 14:46 on March 19th, 2009
lack of faith, commitment and courage thats all what I can say about the goverment.
at 17:59 on March 20th, 2009
I'm sorry to say this, Amaad, but I think 'faith' is the problem here. When someone says they do 'whatever' in the name of faith, if anyone accepts that, then....
at 05:59 on April 8th, 2009
I have to agree with Rene, 'faith' is what allows atrocities like the Taliban and pedophile priests to flourish and spread unchecked. Criminals banding together, emboldened by their numbers and cover of religion, they literally have permission from God to commit any heinous act imaginable.
at 12:41 on April 8th, 2009
faith is only guilty by association.. the horrors achieved by so called seculars are most horrific in man kind to date..
the scars from the atrocities commited by Hitler and Stalin still run deep and cant be forgotten the magnitude of carnage committed by these barbarians was of epic proportions. And not to forget Rawanda genocide
therefore I beg to disagree. faith is not entirely to blame I just refuse to accept Al qaida/ Talian claim of a religious/ holy war.. to me they are just thugs with a religious tag nothing more.