 PESHAWAR: Pro-Taliban militants have warned music and video shops as well as clandestine hashish and alcohol outlets in a Frontier town to close down, local residents said on Saturday.
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The threat came in pamphlets distributed in Darra Adam Khel town, some 25 kilometres from Peshawar, the main town in North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan. At least 10 music shops in the region have suffered grenade attacks by militants over the past eight months. The latest threats also warned shopkeepers to stop downloading songs as mobile telephone ring tones. “The Taliban have set July 1 as a deadline to abandon all un-Islamic business in the area,” local resident Murtza Khan said.“All music shops in this area are closing now,” shopkeeper Jan Alam said.
Similar threats have been made periodically in other tribal territories where militants, emulating the ultra-orthodox Taliban who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, strive to impose their own brand of Islam.
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