We recommended a NY Times story last month detailing the Taliban's crushing power over the people living in Pakistan's Swat Valley. The story explained how Taliban radio broadcasts were used to name those killed for infractions that day, and those to be killed the next day. Now the government of Pakistan has given up on the region, allowing the Taliban to impose it's own Islamic "justice" on the inhabitants. Their rule of law includes a ban on women attending school...and hundreds of girl's schools have been destroyed in the area. Men have been ordered not to shave their beards.
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