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PK: AS IF THEY OWNED SWAT (3#) -

# A coruscating op-ed piece which affords us a deeper insight into the dynamics of the situation out there in the NWFP.

This is Fazlullah as we have not seen him heretofore: mounted on a black stallion, a warlord much more than a religious scholar.

A considerably closer narrative
than we usually get from fly-by media.

*part of the grand strategy of "establishing small independent emirates" to be administered by them and their Islamist colleagues*

:: Try to catch this one!

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# PK military progress
in the Swat area and more.

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# Peshawar: Militants order shopkeepers in the Shaheen Bazaar for women to remove mannequins because the dummies "promote obscenity." If they don't obey the order, dire consequences will ensue, according to threatening letters.

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