Bomb blasts hit Pakistan shops, policeman killed
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - Suspected militants blew up six music shops in restive northwest Pakistan, while a policeman was killed in a resulting gun battle with the rebels, officials said. ADVERTISEMENT [Blocked Ads] Militants also targeted a hair salon in a conservative district of North West Frontier Province, seriously injuring a barber in the bomb blast, a police official said. The tribal policeman was killed in a village after militants blew up three music shops deemed un-Islamic and traded fire with police late Wednesday, police official Mukarram Khan told AFP. Another policeman was hurt and a militant injured during the gunfight was captured, he said. Early Thursday two blasts rocked a town damaging three more music shops and the hair salon, police official Azhar Ali told AFP. The barber, who lost both his hands in the explosion, was taken to hospital in a serious condition, the official said. Police defused a third home-made bomb fitted with a timer which was planted under an electricity transformer in the area, he said. Salons are sometimes targeted by militants who deem shaving beards as un-Islamic. Music was banned under the former hard-line Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan, while men were required to grow beards. Islamic militancy is spreading in the deeply conservative Pakistan province where militants, emulating the Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, strive to impose their own strict brand of Islam. <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071011/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorth\ west;_ylt=AsmVwKmqPUUmZqkr_zHNkCIBxg8F <http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071011/wl_sthasia_afp/pakistanunrestnorth\ west;_ylt=AsmVwKmqPUUmZqkr_zHNkCIBxg8F> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
