Posted on 02/16/2009 5:40:48 PM PST by Sicvee
The Pakistan Government and Islamic hardliners have signed an agreement to enforce sharia law in the north-western Swat valley, a provincial minister told reporters.
The announcement followed talks between the Government of troubled North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and a local militant leader, Soofi Mohammad, on formalising the implementation of strict Islamic law.
"Today an agreement has been signed between the government of NWFP and Maulana Soofi Mohammed," provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told reporters in the north-western city of Peshawar.
"All laws against sharia will be abolished and sharia will be enforced under this justice system," he added.
The agreement will cover Pakistan's Malakand area, one of the districts of NWFP, which includes the Swat valley.
There was no immediate comment from the Islamists.
But Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan said Sunday (local time) that a 10-day ceasefire, announced as a "goodwill gesture" could become permanent if a full agreement were signed on Monday.
Until two years ago, Swat was a jewel in the crown of Pakistani tourism, frequented by foreign and local holiday-makers escaping to the mountains for skiing in winter or cooler climes in the punishing heat of summer.
But the north-west region descended into chaos after radical cleric Maulana Fazlullah embarked on a terrifying campaign to enforce Taliban-style sharia law, prompting thousands of people to flee and suffocating day-to-day life.
- AFP
So not only did we not defeat Al Qeada in Afghanistan, we now have them in Pakistan.
Great.
Taliban-Al Qaeda
Yet another example of the saying “All that is required for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing”. Instead of cowering in their hovels, if the men had grabbed some butter knives and said “You will NOT destroy my home”, this would never have happened.
We see it in the middle east, we see cowards in Mexico who lack the backbone to stand up against a couple of drug dealers. Don’t they realize that tolerance of evil only begets greater evil, and an intolerance of good?
How do you spell S-U-R-R-E-N-D-E-R?
F***ing miserable islamic cesspool Pakistan has become. God, PLEASE give someone... ANYONE... the intestinal fortitude to nuke that failed state out of existence.
The muzzies are so insistent that poverty and hopelessness drive them to terrorist acts... well what the hell do we have here? Poverty and hopelessness — caused by that satanic cult itself, once again perpetuating and exacerbating the very conditions they claim make them feel hopeless.
Well, they are indeed hopeless... long beyond redemption.
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