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Schools and Businesses Close in Pakistan Following Threats From the Taliban
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In what is being seen as an attempt by the Taliban to increase their sphere of influence, threatening letters and phone calls have been received by schools and foreign banks in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP).
They are the first warnings to be issued to schools and businesses outside of the restive tribal areas and closer to more populated areas, such as the city of Peshawar.
The anonymous letters and phone calls warn the schools and businesses to shut down or face violent consequences.
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Today the Beaconhouse School, an English-language co-ed private school, shut the doors of its Peshawar campus in response to the threat. The Standard Chartered Bank also closed a Peshawar office.
The provincial government says undercover policemen have been posted outside places they fear the Taliban may try and target.
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The Pakistani Taliban have issued similar warnings to schools, barbershops and video stores in Pakistan's tribal areas, but this was the first known series of warnings to be issued in the so-called settled areas.
At least half a dozen girls' schools have been bombed in the tribal belt.
In the past year, the Pakistani Taliban have effectively extended their control over large swaths of the tribal areas. Many fear they will continue and try to extend their control to other parts of the Northwest Frontier Province.
February 22, 2007 | Permalink | User Comments (2)
When are they going to get it, either punish the tribal areas now for the terrorism they are producing or later face the threat after it has grown exponentially. Making a ‘peace deal’ with terrorists and telling them to “be good” is absolute nonsense. If this threat within Pakistan is not forced down immediately, either by us or by Pakistan, it is only a matter of time before they overthrow Pakistan’s govt and obtain direct access to nuclear weapons. You cannot provide a haven for these people, and if the locals who already lived there let these terrorists stay among them, then its unfortunate, but they sacrificed themselves.
Posted by: Richard | Feb 22, 2007 11:52:44 AM
Short of total nuclear obliteration the Tribal Areas will remain as they always have. For over 30 Centuries the tribes have governed themselves. They have thrived on the opium trade. Their customers have changed over the centuries, however they have not. They use new technologies to further their main and only mission in Life is to live and die within the strict confines of Islamic Law. However they no longer play well in educated areas.
Educated people can't be Taliban. And Taliban will never be educted beyond the dictates of their Moslem leaders. The Circle is complete.
Posted by: Jim | Mar 1, 2007 6:24:36 PM
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