DMB
11 Mar 2009, 07:18 PM
Now that the Taleban have been allowed to get control in Swat, things are getting very tough for girls and women:
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46024
"Many parents are afraid to send their girls to school while others have left their homes to move to other parts of the country and have still not returned," she said, writing in the daily ‘Dawn’ on Mar. 4.
The Taliban also banned women from going to the markets and, in January, they murdered the famed dancer Shabana in Mingora, two km from the present capital Saidu Sharif, Mingora’s twin city.
After armed men dragged her away from her home in Banr Bazaar, Shabana reportedly begged them to shoot her rather than slit her throat. Her murderers pumped her body with bullets and left it strewn with bank notes, CDs of her dance performances and pictures from her photo album.
The Taliban later broadcast a radio warning on one of its FM stations that any other girl found performing in Banr Bazaar would be killed "one by one".
Appalling, misogynist puritans!
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=46024
"Many parents are afraid to send their girls to school while others have left their homes to move to other parts of the country and have still not returned," she said, writing in the daily ‘Dawn’ on Mar. 4.
The Taliban also banned women from going to the markets and, in January, they murdered the famed dancer Shabana in Mingora, two km from the present capital Saidu Sharif, Mingora’s twin city.
After armed men dragged her away from her home in Banr Bazaar, Shabana reportedly begged them to shoot her rather than slit her throat. Her murderers pumped her body with bullets and left it strewn with bank notes, CDs of her dance performances and pictures from her photo album.
The Taliban later broadcast a radio warning on one of its FM stations that any other girl found performing in Banr Bazaar would be killed "one by one".
Appalling, misogynist puritans!