Monday, March 30, 2009

TTP bars women from Malakand shopping centres

MINGORA: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Sunday announced a ban on women’s entry in shopping centres in Malakand, warning of strict action against those who violated the order.

However, women can visit bazaars if a male member of family accompanies them.

The TTP in Malakand left pamphlets at the Malakand Press Club in which its spokesman Mulla Ali warned women to stop visiting shopping centres alone.

The Taliban also asked shop owners to put up banners that informed the women of the announcement. The pamphlets also warned people in the computer and mobile ring tone businesses to stop their un-Islamic practices. The Taliban also warned the government to close family planning centres in Malakand and issued directives to the Batkhela Hospital medical superintendent to hire female technicians for ECG and female doctors for ultrasound.

Meanwhile, Swat TTP spokesman Muslim Khan said that there was no ban on administration of polio drops in Swat.

You see how much they love the seventh century? They want to live in it.

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