MOSABJA
Junior Member
Pakistan was the country created in the name of Islam and came into being on 27 Ramadan( night of qadr) friday with the migration of 10 million muslims and 1 million killed on the way and it is the only nuclear power in muslim world. after the secular policies of GENERAL PARVEZ MUSHARAF pakistani public is increasingly demanding ISLAMIZATION.
religious parties have come to power in two provinces.
Having banned music in Pakistan's tribal areas, the Taliban are now imposing a fine of 500 rupees for any one playing it in public.
They have also intensified their attacks on shops and video stores selling music CDs and DVDs and cassettes of locally made Urdu, English and Indian films.
The worst sufferers of the new 'pay Rs 500, if you play' regime are the taxi drivers who complain that even possession of a CD player in their vehicles is enough to invite punishment.
The latest target was in Bannu, the hometown of Akram Durrani, chief minister of North West Frontier Province. The attackers came in broad daylight, destroyed a video shop and dumped the damaged CDs, DVDs and other material with impunity in front of the local police station.
More stringent punishment could be coming, local reports said.
The militants have distributed pamphlets in Pushto language warning drivers of private and public vehicles to avoid playing music or face "capital punishment".
"I was stopped by the Taliban at Sarband village near Bara, Khyber Agency, last Saturday. They searched my taxi and found some music cassettes, and then asked me to pay Rs 500 as a fine," Khanimullah, a Peshawar-based taxi driver, told Daily Times.
Another taxi driver, Ali Khan, recounted a similar experience at Sangu near the Khyber Agency border two weeks ago, when men claiming to be local Taliban fined him Rs 500 because he had a Pashto music cassette in his car.
"They said music is a sin and prohibited in Islam," he said. The hardline Daawat-ul-Mujahideen had distributed pamphlets in Pushto saying music was banned in vehicles plying in Bajaur Agency.
he pro-Taliban warlord Abdullah Mehsud, 29, who operates in the Waziristan province of Pakistan, has recently announced the implementation of strict Islamic laws in North and South Waziristan and urged all music and video shops to close down their businesses. Several shops have also been blown up in South Waziristan after the shopkeepers ignored the message.
Students of a religious seminary burnt music CDs, video recorders and tv-sets worth 1.5 million rupees in the federal capital of Pakistan on Friday 6 April 2007. They also issued warnings to the owners of music centres to close down their ‘un-Islamic’ businesses within one month.
religious parties have come to power in two provinces.
Having banned music in Pakistan's tribal areas, the Taliban are now imposing a fine of 500 rupees for any one playing it in public.
They have also intensified their attacks on shops and video stores selling music CDs and DVDs and cassettes of locally made Urdu, English and Indian films.
The worst sufferers of the new 'pay Rs 500, if you play' regime are the taxi drivers who complain that even possession of a CD player in their vehicles is enough to invite punishment.
The latest target was in Bannu, the hometown of Akram Durrani, chief minister of North West Frontier Province. The attackers came in broad daylight, destroyed a video shop and dumped the damaged CDs, DVDs and other material with impunity in front of the local police station.
More stringent punishment could be coming, local reports said.
The militants have distributed pamphlets in Pushto language warning drivers of private and public vehicles to avoid playing music or face "capital punishment".
"I was stopped by the Taliban at Sarband village near Bara, Khyber Agency, last Saturday. They searched my taxi and found some music cassettes, and then asked me to pay Rs 500 as a fine," Khanimullah, a Peshawar-based taxi driver, told Daily Times.
Another taxi driver, Ali Khan, recounted a similar experience at Sangu near the Khyber Agency border two weeks ago, when men claiming to be local Taliban fined him Rs 500 because he had a Pashto music cassette in his car.
"They said music is a sin and prohibited in Islam," he said. The hardline Daawat-ul-Mujahideen had distributed pamphlets in Pushto saying music was banned in vehicles plying in Bajaur Agency.
he pro-Taliban warlord Abdullah Mehsud, 29, who operates in the Waziristan province of Pakistan, has recently announced the implementation of strict Islamic laws in North and South Waziristan and urged all music and video shops to close down their businesses. Several shops have also been blown up in South Waziristan after the shopkeepers ignored the message.
Students of a religious seminary burnt music CDs, video recorders and tv-sets worth 1.5 million rupees in the federal capital of Pakistan on Friday 6 April 2007. They also issued warnings to the owners of music centres to close down their ‘un-Islamic’ businesses within one month.
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