http://www.gulfnews.com/world/Pakistan/10152196.html
'Islamists' behead two women in tribal region
AP
Published: September 07, 2007, 23:30
Bannu: Suspected Islamists beheaded two women in northwest Pakistan after
accusing them of being prostitutes, police said yesterday.
Villagers spotted the decapitated bodies on the outskirts of Bannu, a
city in a region where extremists are waging a violent campaign to impose
Taliban-style social norms, a police official said.
The two women, 28 and 30, were riding an auto rickshaw when five armed
men, wearing masks, overpowered them, bundled them into a car and drove away,
he said, quoting witnesses.
The official asked for anonymity because he was not authorised to speak
to the media.
A note found with the bodies identified the victims as Bannu residents
and accused them of "doing acts of obscenity", a term meaning prostitution,
according to the police official. "We have started doing this to end obscenity
in the area," the official quoted the unidentified assailants as saying in the
note.
Authorities will investigate the slayings, he said.
Extremists have bombed shops selling music and movies in Bannu and other
towns in North West Frontier Province, and barbers have been warned not to
shave customers' beards - moves reminiscent of the harsh version of Islamic law
once imposed by the Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan.
In Mingora, a town south of Bannu, a powerful bomb blast yesterday
destroyed 48 shops, 33 of them selling music and movie CDs, a local police
official said. No one was hurt in the attack.
The pre-dawn explosion damaged the gates of the shops and scattered CDs
in the downtown market, the official said.
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