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Militants set up checkpoints in northern Pakistan |
2007-05-07 |
ISLAMABAD - Around 250 gunmen described as Taleban set up checkpoints in Pakistan’s northwest Bajaur agency by the Afghan border and terrorized travellers, news reports said Sunday. Masked men forced drivers from vehicles at gunpoint and took and destroyed tape recorders in incidents Saturday. They also snatched mobile phones and threatened clean-shaven males with “strict action” if they did not grow beards. Although Pakistan’s tribal areas by the border have seen a sharp increase in so-called Talebanization in recent months, this was the first time militants had openly paraded and set up checkpoints, residents told the Dawn newspaper. Local authorities allegedly made no attempt to deal with the threat. A large group of men with automatic weapons also came to audio entertainment shops in the town of Inayat Kali and warned the owners to stop trading. |
Posted by:Steve White |
#4 This is why the Taliban became so unpopular in Afghanistan. Let them run the territory for a few years and then the locals will help chase them out. |
Posted by: DoDo 2007-05-07 11:27 |
#3 ...and threatened clean-shaven males with “strict action” if they did not grow beards. You mean, like, right now? Hokay. Come back two weeks. |
Posted by: tu3031 2007-05-07 09:53 |
#2 Militants set up checkpoints in northern Pakistan They call them "checkpoints". We need to call them "targets". and threatened clean-shaven males with “strict action” "And after the spanking, the oral sex!" |
Posted by: Zenster 2007-05-07 09:00 |
#1 Very progressive. Can you listen to jihad tapes? Or is that haraam too? |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2007-05-07 08:44 |