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September 7, 2007
Militants Behead women,
Bomb Stores in Pakistan

Islamabad
Islamic militants have decapitated two alleged prostitutes and bombed dozens of businesses in Pakistan's restive North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), police said Friday.

Two bodies and severed heads were found on the outskirts of the city of Bannu with a letter saying the women were prostitutes and that others caught selling sexual favours would meet the same fate, police chief Dar Ali Khattak told DPA.

Towns in the border province have been increasingly subject to intimidation by militant groups seeking to impose Taliban-style rule.

In Mangora, some 200 km further north, five homemade explosive devices were detonated in a pre-dawn attack on two markets. Fifty shops, mainly audio and video entertainment stores, were destroyed.

"Shop owners received threatening letters 15 days ago in which they were told to shut down their businesses or face bombings," police chief Iqbal Ahmed said.

No one was hurt in the blasts, which was thought to have been carried out by pro-Taliban extremists who deem the selling, buying and renting out of audio and video recordings immoral and "un-Islamic".

Traders received letters threatening reprisals if they sell cosmetics, while women were warned not to visit shops unless accompanied by a male relative, according to the official.

The province has also experienced a surge in attacks on security forces since troops in July stormed Islamabad's radical Red Mosque, where clerics were also demanding enforcement of Islamic law in the country.

Scores of policemen and soldiers have died in bombings and firefights since the operation and the subsequent collapse of government peace treaties with pro-Taliban tribesmen.

IANS | September 7, 2007 

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