Militants stop cars, smash cameras in NW Pakistan

Source: Reuters

Militants stop cars, smash cameras in NW Pakistan
05 May 2007 14:03:04 GMT
Source: Reuters

KHAR, Pakistan, May 5 (Reuters) - Some 200 gun-toting Islamist
militants smashed car cassette players and mobile phone cameras
on Saturday and ordered tribesmen in a Pakistani region to grow
beards, part of a drive to impose Taliban-style values.

The militants took up positions beside a road near Khar, the
main town of Bajaur tribal region in northwestern Pakistan, and
stopped and searched passing vehicles, witnesses said.

"They smashed cassette players running music and mobile phones
fitted with cameras," a driver whose vehicle was searched told
Reuters.

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A government official in Bajaur confirmed the incident but did
not say whether authorities planned any action against the
militants.

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