Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Music stores bombed in Pakistan - BBC News


At least four people have got been wounded after activists bombed picture and music mercantile establishments in north-west Pakistan.


The hurts were all from a blast at the Ashraf music shop in Kohat, a town in North-West Frontier State (NWFP).


Militants also blew up two twelve stalls selling CDs and pictures in Miran Shah in the tribal country of North Waziristan. No casualties were reported.


Pro-Taleban belligerents see music and movie as un-Islamic and are behind tons of such as onslaughts in recent years.


Threats


The BBC's Ilyas Caravansary states Wednesday's onslaught in Kohat is the first to have got been carried out in NWFP in daylight.


More than a twelve music stores were blown up on the outskirts of the town on Monday night.


Most music supplies in NWFP have got either closed down or switched to other concern followers menaces from suspected Taleban groups.


The onslaughts come up at a clip when activists based in a tribal territory near Kohat are reported to be nearing a peace understanding with the authorities.


A police force functionary told the BBC it was too early to state who carried out the Kohat bombings.


He said there could be respective motivations for the attacks, ranging from extortion to an attempt to make hurdling in the at hand peace agreement.

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