Taliban demands end to music on Pakistan buses

[Nagishkaw 510]

they dont like music??

In Afghanistan 1996-2001, it was popular sport for Taliban "enforcers" to sieze and break casettes and then stream the tapes on poles.

or do the bus drivers listen to a lot of hip hop?

Mostly, Pakistani ghazals (or pirated ones from neighbouring India).

The only music Taliban ever enjoyed were:

sound of bullets or shells poppingsound of human screams from beatings, bayonettings, or stonings (in typical approach, these were enjoyed by Taliban's forming benefactor Zia ul-Haq)

[Saddle Bronc 124]

i heard some of their music...taliban is spot on...you can just take so much of celine and jessica simpson

What, no Banghra????

Wrong province, pedro.

Banghra is Punjabi, practiced mostly in Indian states of Punjab and Haryana (till 1966, the two states were one--split was done by Indira Gandhi for playing dirty politics) and to a lesser extent (especially since 1977) in Pakistani province of Punjab; it was never popular in NWFP (of which Peshawar is capitol) or FATA (areas near Afghan border nominally "administered" by Pakistan government)

Edited January 21, 2009 by CherryXS

[Ban Hammer 13,352]

Can we get a surge going there to oust these retards....

Why torture them at Gitmo? Send them to a Jonas Bros. concert

or on a bangbus tour.

Come mister taliban, tally me banana...

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Q. What do you call a Taliban with a goat and a sheep?

A. Bisexual.

[Waldo 0]

aparently after getting slapped they have lowered their demands from world domination to no music in the combi´s

[SAT 9,609]

By RIAZ KHAN

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Bus drivers in northwest Pakistan have begun removing audio and video equipment from their vehicles after Taliban militants threatened suicide attacks against those who played music or movies for their passengers, an industry official said Tuesday.

Transport workers in Mardan town received letters this week from militants saying that buses offering such entertainment were guilty of spreading "vulgarity and obscenity," Walid Mir, general secretary of the town's transport union, told The Associated Press.

The militants said they would check the buses and that suicide attacks would be carried out against vehicles that still had audio and video equipment - prompting union members to act quickly, Mir said.

The Taliban letter complained that traveling in buses that provide audiovisual entertainment was a "source of mental agony for pious people," according to a text obtained by AP.

It is obligatory on us to stop such violations. We request you to remove the vulgar systems ... otherwise suicide bombers are ready," the letter said.

Mardan lies in the Northwest Frontier Province just outside Pakistan's volatile tribal belt where extremists among the Taliban, al-Qaida and local groups are waging a violent campaign against authorities in a bid to impose their strict interpretation of Islam.

Elsewhere in northwest Pakistan, extremists have targeted girls' schools, police posts and other symbols of authority.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban regime that was forced from power in late 2001 banned art, secular music and television, vandalized the national museum and destroyed artwork or statues deemed idolatrous or anti-Muslim.

Local police said they had no knowledge of the threat.

"Certainly, we can look into it if we receive a complaint," Mardan police chief Syed Akhtar Ali Shah said.

Mir said the transport companies had no plans to make a report.

"We did not report it to police because it is a matter of human lives. What can the police can do? It involves the lives of hundreds of passengers, and we do not want to put them in danger," Mir said.

Oh yea?.......2 can play that game.

I demand all turbines to be removed from all NYC taxi cab criver's heads.

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Oh yea?.......2 can play that game.

I demand all turbines to be removed from all NYC taxi cab criver's heads.

Turbines? You know the Sikh's wear turbans along with beards...they aren't even remotely close to being Taliban or even Muslim.

[SAT 9,609]

Oh yea?.......2 can play that game.

I demand all turbines to be removed from all NYC taxi cab criver's heads.

Turbines? You know the Sikh's wear turbans along with beards...they aren't even remotely close to being Taliban or even Muslim.

True that...........but now are you saying that all NYC cab drivers are sikhs? lol

Edited January 21, 2009 by SteveAndTiff

[Jasman0717 9]

aparently after getting slapped they have lowered their demands from world domination to no music in the combi´s

WE can capture them, take them to Guantanamo Bay and make they listen to Barry Manilow 7-24

[one...two...tree 2,762]

Oh yea?.......2 can play that game.

I demand all turbines to be removed from all NYC taxi cab criver's heads.

Turbines? You know the Sikh's wear turbans along with beards...they aren't even remotely close to being Taliban or even Muslim.

True that...........

Not to pick on you, but I remember at least a few incidences where a Sikh was attacked or even killed after 9/11. I've seen many who drive cabs.

[Waldo 0]

I didn´t know that. I do know I have been around some that wear turbines and they smelled bad, thats the extent to my knowledge of trubines and some of the people that wear them.

[SAT 9,609]

Oh yea?.......2 can play that game.

I demand all turbines to be removed from all NYC taxi cab criver's heads.

Turbines? You know the Sikh's wear turbans along with beards...they aren't even remotely close to being Taliban or even Muslim.

True that...........

Not to pick on you, but I remember at least a few incidences where a Sikh was attacked or even killed after 9/11. I've seen many who drive cabs.

That's true too my friend. And wronfully might I add............

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

What an intolerant bunch of savages.

[Peikko 1,575]

What an intolerant bunch of savages.

Much better than an intolerant but 'educated' soul, such as yourself?

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

What an intolerant bunch of savages.

Much better than an intolerant but 'educated' soul, such as yourself?

Have you considered a bus tour of Pakistan?