Adil Najam
This photograph was published in Daily Times, January 12, 2009. The caption read:
“Women are not allowed in the market,” reads a banner displayed at the entrance of a market in Mingora. Taliban have banned the entry of women in markets and ordered the killing of women who violate the ban. Most shop owners have sold or shut down their businesses because of falling sales following the restriction.
What would have made this tragic depiction comical had the context been different is that from the picture this is clearly a textile and cloth market – the type of market where, in Pakistan, you would expect most customers to be women!
Amin Paanwalla, this was not the Shariah that Pakistan was made for and these murderers of Pakistanis are not the people we want to follow. They are criminals, thugs and traitors. That is all these Taliban are.
@Monkey: You gave me a good laugh. I mean if the guy was going to say,”Itna Zyda pehan kar mat niklo” then you were goign to award that guy ‘Hilal-e-Pakistan’. Isn’t it?
Psuedo Intellectuals like you sure entertain me a lot.
Definately shariah nizam should be imlimented in pakistan to govern the country under Islamic Laws given in Quran ,Ahadis and seerat.Life our prophet was interpreted the Quran practically.Although pakstan was demanded and came into being in 1947 for the same cause after unprecedental sacrifices,on the basis of Islamic Idiology.At the time of independence we were one,united.there was no thinking of provincialism,Languistic,sectrism ,and no ther divisions among us which now er witnessed.Our enemies within us taken advantage of our negligence and distance from our religion.Now most of the rulers who are holding powers and support of our traditional enemies ,non belivers,secular minded people within them which makes the mess so we are illusioned and our destination gone in dark.for implementing shariah all of us first unite on destination and the struglled like our pakistan movement with leader of our Quide’quolities .Almighty Allah blessed us all and our beloved pakistan changed into for which it was demanded.Aameen
The more dangerous trend is that this hoarding is a direct challenge to the writ of Government of Pakistan which in this case does not seem to be taking the proverbial bull by the horns in NWFP!
I am ashamed of my coreligionists in Swat. I pray that Allah guide them to the right path. The next step is to provide economic and educational opportunities to the deprived so they do not become Talibans when they grow up.