Many people like to purchase jihadi CDs from the Karkhano Market, where a large number of shopkeepers are doing this business. “The demand for jihadi CDs increases in Ramazan,” Attihad, a shopkeeper at Karkhano Market, told Daily times. Attihad said once a foreigner came to his shop and bought the whole stock of jihadi CDs available at his shop. “I sell 20 to 25 cassettes, cost ranging from Rs 30 to 60, on a daily basis,” he added. Another shopkeeper requesting anonymity said the business of jihadi CDs fluctuates. He said he daily sold 25 to 30 cassettes, adding, “We also supply such CDs to other parts of NWFP and Afghanistan. We sell these cassette, featuring fighters in jehad, secretly, as police seizes all such CDs during their raids and also arrests shopkeepers,” the shopkeeper said, adding that they were unable to desert their business though it was illegal. He said he feared secret agencies would imprison him for selling jihadi CDs, which was why he was doing his business secretly.
Another shopkeeper on the condition of anonymity stated that most people liked CDs relating to war in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and the situation in Bara and Waziristan.
| A buyer at Karkhano Market said when non-Muslims attack you, it is Muslims’ prime responsibility to participate in jehad. “We like watching jihadi films, and are proud of our warriors,” he added. |
Assistant Sub-Inspector from the Karkhano police station Muhammad Ikram Khan told Daily Times that jihadi CDs’ sale was illegal and that, “We have given the shopkeepers June 30 deadline to wind up their illegal businesses.” The ASI also said police had talked to the market’s owner over the issue, and that police would take action against jihadi CDs sellers after June 30.