Bill Roggio: Pakistan: Shangla District Falls To The Taliban
From Bill Roggio’s post today:
The Taliban continue to take territory in the Northwest Frontier Province. After fighting the Pakistani military to a standstill in North Waziristan and forcibly taking over much of Swat, the Taliban have marched eastward into the settled district of Shangla.
Over 500 Taliban fighters under the command of Maulana Muhammad Alam poured into Shangla and took control of the district office and police station in Alpuri “without facing any resistance from the government,” the Daily Times reported. “All government functionaries, including the DPO [District Police Officer] and DCO [District Coordination Officer], left the area the moment they heard of the fall of Shangla Top police station, located at the border between Swat and Shangla.” The district courts are also under Taliban control, Dawn reported.
Maulana Alam, an ally of Swat’s firebrand cleric Maulana Fazlullah, claimed the Taliban only sought to impose sharia law in Shangla. “We only struggle for the enforcement of Shariah,” Alam was reported to have said.
Read Bill Roggio’s full article here at The Long War Journal.
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The cancer grows…Remove the gloves Musharraf before it’s too late.
November 14th, 2007 at 2:29 pmThis do to the stupid twat creating the protests therefore vacuuming up all the police to cover that…
November 14th, 2007 at 3:26 pm