Sunday 25th January, 2009
The Taliban are spreading terror through Pakistan’s Swat Valley through the medium of radio.
The Taliban has insisted, under threat of beheading, that Swat residents listen to radio each evening for the latest dictates from Taliban officials.
The New York Times has reported that Taliban leaders have announced as "un-Islamic", activities such as selling DVDs, watching cable television, singing, dancing, criticizing the Taliban, shaving beards and allowing girls to attend school.
The broadcasts also note the names of people the Taliban has recently killed or is planning to kill for violating their radio orders.
Recently, different Talibani announcements warned of the killing of a dancing girl for violating Islamic laws.
Consequently, the residents were shocked to find the bullet-ridden body of the city's most famous dancing girls splayed on the main square.
The Swat Valley is relatively close to Pakistan's three major cities, Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
Despite President Zardari's pledge to fight Taliban in Swat, Pakistan's 15,000 troops have remained fairly ambivalent toward the 4,000 Taliban fighters in the region.
Swat residents have said that the soldiers have never raided a small village, which is widely known as the Taliban's headquarters in Swat, nor have they destroyed mobile radio transmitters.
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