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...Taliban was born have awoken to "night letters" left on their doorsteps and pasted on walls ordering them to boycott Afghanistan's second-ever presidential election, on Aug 20. Those letters have now turned into death threats. The latest, seen by TIME, is purportedly authored by Mullah Ghulam Haider, the alleged Taliban commander in Kandahar city. It says those who vote will be considered "enemies of Islam" and could "become a victim" of "new tactics." It does not offer details. Another letter promises to cut off the fingers of people with blue ink stains, a sign they have voted. Last...
Some people, however, play down the warnings from Haider and the militants. Abdul Qader Noorzai, head of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commsion in Kandahar province, says people "are tired of the Taliban's threats and don't take them as seriously" after repeated promises of suicide attacks never came. He notes that the militants' stated intent is to avoid civilian casualties in order to cast in sharper relief U.S. culpability for the deaths of Afghans in errant air strikes and night raids. (Insurgents have been responsible for 60% of civilian deaths so far this year, according to U.N. figures...
...some critics, the new inquiry is too limited in scope and comes too late. "It is an insult to the intelligence of the people, at the expense of millions of dollars," says Iqbal Haider, who served as attorney general and law minister in Bhutto's governments. "What would an inquiry do after more than one and a half year has passed, when all the evidence was washed away, and no autopsy was taken of Benazir Bhutto or the 20 party workers who died with her?" (The Musharraf government was widely criticized after rescue services hosed down the scene...
Speaking at a news conference in Peshawar, Amir Haider Khan Hoti, the chief minister of the North-West Frontier Province, said on Monday that Shari'a law would be introduced to the Malakand division (which includes the Swat Valley), but only once the area is peaceful. The Taliban tentatively welcomed the decision, announcing a 10-day cease-fire on Sunday...
...education will be lifted and that the measures will be less austere than the Taliban's in Afghanistan. But Pakistani advocates of women's rights have sounded an alarm, forcefully arguing that the move endangers both the rule of law and women's rights. "We condemn it," says Iqbal Haider, co-chairman of the Pakistan Human Rights Commission and a former law minister. "It is an illegal, unconstitutional and discriminatory act to further promote religious fanaticism in Pakistan. The constitution does not allow a parallel legal system. And there is no guarantee of peace - the militants are not party...