Local Taliban leaders distributed pamphlets on Monday in Mir Ali subdivision of North Waziristan warning that murderers would be sentenced to prison and fined under the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). Local militants also banned the sale and purchase of intoxicants like liquor, hashish and an orange variety called ‘tharra’ that is used in homemade liquor, in the jurisdiction of Mir Ali. Residents said the pamphlet was to tighten the noose around foreign militants like Uzbeks who were driven out from Wana, Azam Warsak, and the Kaloosha areas of South Waziristan.
The pamphlet warned that if anyone attempted to buy the prohibited items in any village of Mir Ali subdivision, they would be punished under the Pakistan Penal Code.
This is a departure from the militantsÂ’ usual method of punishing criminals under the Shariah. The local Taliban said that dacoits, thieves and kidnappers were completely prohibited in Mir Ali subdivision and that any criminal captured would be punished.
The pamphletÂ’s language implies that North WaziristanÂ’s Taliban are planning on driving out the Uzbek warriors in the area in the same way that the South Waziristan Taliban flushed them out of their agency. The local Taliban also presented the limits of Mir Ali bazaar in the pamphlet.