... "In a report today, well-informed journalist Hamid Mir discloses that the Taliban leadership has decided to send fighters to Islamabad and has warned Islamic scholars in the federal capital to support the Taliban or leave the city.
The Taliban have listed the names of the Islamic scholars who are refusing to support them on their hit list.
"For a long time, I have been expressing the view that all Pakistan's cities are within the Taliban's reach. Lahore, Faisalabad, Karachi, Hyderabad, Rawalpindi and Islamabad - indeed, there is no big city that has no madrassa in its populace. These madrassas have hundreds to thousands of students; a large number of them come from backward areas and impoverished families. Even in madrassas, they lead a life of deprivation; these students consider even the ordinary homes of the lower middle classes as wealthy. They think a television and a refrigerator are a luxury. Read more ...
The Taliban have listed the names of the Islamic scholars who are refusing to support them on their hit list.
"For a long time, I have been expressing the view that all Pakistan's cities are within the Taliban's reach. Lahore, Faisalabad, Karachi, Hyderabad, Rawalpindi and Islamabad - indeed, there is no big city that has no madrassa in its populace. These madrassas have hundreds to thousands of students; a large number of them come from backward areas and impoverished families. Even in madrassas, they lead a life of deprivation; these students consider even the ordinary homes of the lower middle classes as wealthy. They think a television and a refrigerator are a luxury. Read more ...
Source: MEMRI
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