Thursday, January 22, 2009

The Pakistani Taliban have threatened to blow up a bus with music.

The drivers of passenger buses in the north-west Pakistan have begun to dismantle the audio and video shops from their cars, after they have received threatening letters from militants of the Taliban, reports Associated Press.
The letters contained a demand to stop playing music and videos on buses. The militants threatened to disrupt through suicide bus, which would continue to make "go and obscene" entertainment.
According to local police, they were not aware of such letters. Transport confirmed that the police are not informed about the threats. "We are not reported to the police, because it concerns human lives. What can the police do? It is about the lives of hundreds of passengers, we do not want to expose them to danger," - said the representative of the transport company.
North-western parts of Pakistan are the activities of various terrorist and extremist groups, including the Taliban and al-Qaeda. " Militia attacks here have repeatedly been subjected to girls' schools, police posts, government offices.
During the rule of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the country has banned the execution of secular music and television, it was announced the source of moral corruption, and is also prohibited.

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