Taliban ban music in N. Waziristan

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May 08, 2007

Taliban ban music in N. Waziristan

Sharia Alert. From Dawn, with thanks to Sr. Soph:

MIRAMSHAH, May 7: The local Taliban Shoora on Monday imposed a ban on sale of CDs and cassettes and music in buses and passenger coaches in North Waziristan.
The Shoora also ordered owners of music and video shops in Miramshah to wind up their businesses immediately.

Armed volunteers raided music centres and CD shops in the town and asked the shopkeepers to stop playing music.

Eyewitnesses said the militants stopped passenger vehicles on the Miramshah-Mirali road and removed cassette and CD players.

Locals said that the militants, who virtually control the region, also asked people not to play or listen to music at public places, including Miramshah Bazaar.

The Shoora announcement said that anybody violating the order would have to face ‘consequences’.

Anwarullah Khan adds from Khar in Bajaur Agency: Most music shops and hair-cutting salons here have been closed and their owners have switched to other businesses.

Some of them moved out of the agency after pro-Taliban militants bombed their shops over the past weeks.

Last week, armed men set up road blocks in different areas and stopped private and public transport vehicles to search for cassette and CD players.

They seized cassettes and players from several vehicles and smashed them on the spot. Masked gunmen also warned clean-shaven commuters to grow beard or face punishment.

They also ordered passengers to remove musical ring tones from their cell phones and not to use mobile phones with built-in camera....

They said that the board of governors of the Bajaur Public School and College, an English medium institution run by the political administration, had changed students’ uniform from shirt and trousers to shalwar-kameez after they received threats and ‘orders’ to stop using ‘western uniform.’


Posted by Robert at May 8, 2007 06:42 AM
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