Re: Wazir tribesmen battle Foreign militants - 12 Uzbeks killed
As a reminder, this is what the fight is all about, for those of you who keep thinking it is ok to make peace deals with Taliban.
Even the type of burqas now have to be approved by one-eyed Mullah Omar now? Is he a fashion designer?
And even the tribal militia is afraid of Taliban. Rule of law has further gone downhill after this so called peace deal.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\06\story_6-3-2007_pg7_8
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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Barbers in Darra Adam Khel also ban shaving
- Girl students warned not to wear ‘fashionable’ burqas
Staff Report
DARA ADAM KHEL: Barbers in Darra Adam Khel have followed the example of their counterparts in Bajaur by ceasing the service of shaving men’s beards, two days after an explosion at a barber’s shop near the main Darra bazaar, tribal sources said on Monday.
The barbers hanged notices in their windows saying: “Men’s shaving is banned and Taliban zindabad,” eyewitnesses said.
Barber Fazle Rahim told Daily Times: “An (Islamic) organisation ordered the ban on men’s shaving and we are following the order.”
Darra is the second tribal town after Bajaur where barbers have agreed to comply with a demand from whom locals refer to as Taliban, for a ban on shaving.
“If we don’t comply with their order they bomb our places. We have no other way out except to accept their demand,” Rahim said.
Barbers are the latest group to be targeted by militants, who earlier targeted video and music shops and businessmen dealing in prize bond.
Meanwhile, female students of Shaheen Public School and College were warned against wearing “fashionable” burqas.
A teacher of the private school told Daily Times that militants delivered a letter directing that female students wear the full “shuttle cock” burqa, failing which there would be “serious trouble”.
Meanwhile, people who had received death threats have been pasting notes on the wall of a mosque in Darra bazaar asking militants to “pardon” them, eyewitnesses said. “They come to Jamia Mosque in Dara where they paste the notes saying we seek forgiveness for our action that the Taliban did not like,” an eyewitness said.
Among those who pasted the notes were tribal policemen and a journalist who the Taliban declared “liable to be killed” for “spying” on the mujahideen. “Since we don’t know who these people are and also don’t know how to seek forgiveness, we found this novel way to send our message to the people who matter,” said one cop who just returned from pasting his note on the mosque wall.
Who will take revenge for these murders? I guess not the Pakistan Army.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\03\06\story_6-3-2007_pg7_7
Two ‘US spies’ shot dead in Miranshah
MIRANSHAH: Suspected militants in a Pakistani tribal area shot dead two tribesman accused of spying for US forces operating in Afghanistan, said officials on Monday.
The body of 30-year-old Qayyum Shahmiri was found early on Monday south of Miranshah, a security official told AFP. He said Shahmiri had been shot in the head and chest, and a note found near his body said he was an “American spy”.
Security officials said another body was found later from a drain in Manzar Khel town, 25 kilometres south of Miranshah. The bullet-riddled body of 40-year-old tribesman Reham Din was found with a note claiming that he was working as an “America spy”, they said. Last week, pro-Taliban militants decapitated an Afghan cleric accused of spying for US forces and making recordings of anti-Taliban speeches in South Waziristan. The militants also cut off the hands and feet of a suspected spy in North Waziristan last month. afp