Taliban warns NWFP doctors over dress

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I’m sure this is all Islamic & anyone who opposes these barbarians & their version of “sharia” deserves to die. Can’t wait for Taliban defenders to show up & defend this one.

TTP warns NWFP doctors over dress

TTP warns NWFP doctors over dress

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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

By Mushtaq Yusufzai

PESHAWAR: The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has allegedly warned doctors of the public sector hospitals in Peshawar to stop wearing shirts and trousers or face suicide bombing.

A senior doctor at the oldest public sector hospital of the NWFP ñ the Lady Reading Hospital (LRH) — told The News on condition of anonymity that they had received a letter from the TTP, asking doctors and all other medical staff to immediately stop wearing shirts and trousers or suicide bombers would target them at their institutions.

He said the chief executive of the LRH, after receiving the TTP letter on April 28, circulated the communication to the medical superintendent, deputy medical superintendents and other senior staff members of the hospital and directed them to take precautionary measures.

The doctor said the chief executive had mentioned in his circular that the TTP threat should be taken seriously, urging doctors and other staff members to stop wearing shirts and trousers. The staff member said the alleged TTP threat had sent a wave of shock among the doctors’ community.

Two other senior doctors at the Hayatabad Medical Complex and the Khyber Teaching Hospital (KTH) also confirmed receiving similar threats from the TTP. They said chief executives of all the three teaching hospitals directed their staff members, particularly doctors, to stop wearing shirts and trousers so that they could be saved from suicide bombers.

When reached by telephone, NWFP Secretary for Health Dr Sohail Altaf confirmed the threatening letters that were received by the hospital executives from unknown people. He said he too had received a copy of the letter, which he haddispatched to the NWFP police chief, Malik Naveed Khan, for investigation. Sohail Altaf said he did not believe the Taliban would have sent the letter.

The secretary said it seemed that certain elements had started terrorising peaceful citizens in view of the situation the people were facing these days. A senior doctor at the LRH said the threatening letter had created extreme panic and many doctors had stopped wearing the dress after the warning from the Taliban.

“It shows there is no writ of the government and Pakistan has become a Taliban state. It is a serious issue as the Taliban have practically started interferering into the personal matters of citizens and affairs of the government departments,” said a senior doctor at the KTH.

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We don't have to wait for anyone to defend rats, just pass our condemnation, spit on 'em and move on.

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Re: Taliban warns NWFP doctors over dress

They're trying to create as much fear as possible.

Ridiculous.

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Re: Taliban warns NWFP doctors over dress

I wonder what excuse will bitter_reality come up for his taliban friends this time

Hi
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They are destroying school, bridges etccc...slaughtering the innocent, killing local economy. Who the F**kn are the idiots? Its not hard to predict the pattern of these idiots and their influences, who wants to destroy Pakistan more then anything? Where does a so called Mullah get finances, surely not from Chanda's after Friday prayers. The Taliban are idiots like you and me with two eyes, a brain etccc who are paid to do what they are doing. The problem is not the name Taliban but who funds all this...

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That's the real question, isn't it? Who is behind all this because its totally not possible with all the corruption in the muslim world and the corruption and de-intellectualization of madrassah education worldwide and de-organization and lack of progression of such curriculum that suicide bomber mentalities could ever have been born. Our crumbling civilization could never have possibly given birth to such a chaotic dooms-day cultish movement...?

And its probably not possible that there are enough people in the world doped up on heroin and other drugs which end up profitting the Taliban involved in the drug trade...helping them fund their movement. It has to be some outside force that inherently hates Pakistan and has nothing better to do...

pours sarcasm all over this post

Wht r u doing ?
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Profit? you mean the one that costs Rs5000 a KG in pak and gets sold for multiples of that overseas or the importers that benefit from it. The Talibans who ever they are operates within say Pak and surrounding areas, who controls it all once they cross teh border.

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What the hell? Are they crazy or what? Such a BS :mad3:

I am sure they are not doing it for Sharia or Islam but there are other hands involved in it. They just do not want Pakistan anymore on the map :mad3:

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Jeans and shirts = suicide bombings. Yeah, that makes sense in a taliban world.

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Government College banned jeans and Tshirts as well.

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How long until guys will stop wearing jeans to avoid offending the Taliban as well ?

So there is a race on among the leading colleges in Lahore to show which one offends the Taliban the least… and who ever finishes the last by offending them the most risks being bombed.

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^ Oh my God this is getting worse now.

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I am lost for words. This is touching highest levels of insanity

Wht r u doing ?
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really these talibs can't be that stupid can they ????

Did someone care to tell them the very weapons they use are a production of the west (and at times with jews participation) they distaste so much ..... hypocrisy at it's best

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Re: Taliban warns NWFP doctors over dress

All the posters, Talibans are not the DEFENDERS of Islam, as a matter of fact they are very much against the fundamentals of Islam... so please do not associate any of their act/decision or say with Sanity i.e. Islam.

Le Pout
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Re: Taliban warns NWFP doctors over dress

speechless

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Re: Taliban warns NWFP doctors over dress

That is the issue we had discussed in the KC lahore and jeans topic as well. The arguments from both sides make sense

argument 1 is- we know our security apparatus is unable to contain the attacks by these terrorists, so we must do what we can to decrease the probability of attack on us by taking away reasons that we may be attacked. it is a very pragmatic view.

argument 2 is- how far can we bend before breaking, and what of these people's demands must we fulfill to ensure our safety, what does that do to our way of life and should we just stand up and say No, we will not change our lifestyle because of your threats. This also makes sense in the bigger picture because of the point, where does it stop, and why should people have to change their lifestyle at the barrel of a gun.

ppl who support view 1 and not view 2 may think view 2 is unrealistic, idealistic and devoid of reality. while people who support view 2 may see ppl with view 1 as those with defeatist viewpoints.

My view is that both are correct, you must do what you can to protect yourself in the short term while at the same time pressuring the govt and security apparatus to up their game so you dont have to permanently be stuck in some slippery slope of extremists demands.

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and our un educated media promptly spread this thug threats.

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Any guesses? My vote is for the evil hanood/yahood.

Yours is ???