Taliban blow up CD shop, letter threatens local media
Taliban blew up a CD shop in a shopping centre in Bilitang town in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on June 24, 2007 .
Traders observed a strike to protest against the blast and demanded the administration to provide security to businessmen. The CD shop’s owner, Tariq Khan, said the Taliban had given him no advance warning.
Press reports said the police, had asked the traders to arrange for their own security and “try to switch over to other businesses”. Police blamed the local Taliban for the blast and said they were trying to trace the criminals.
In another incident in the same province, Mishal Khan, the president of the Muttahida Shopkeepers Association in the city of Charsadda, received a threatening letter from a previously unknown organisation, Tanzim Taliban.
The letter set a seven day deadline for those involved in “adultery, running net cafés and newspaper owners publishing editions on women” to stop their “un-Islamic” activities or they would be subjected to suicide attacks.
The letter asked him to convey their message to the media persons to stop publishing “immoral pictures” in newspapers.
Source: PPF
Date:6/25/2007
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