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One step closer to the Caliphate: Dar-ul-Qaza established in NWFP
The actual wearer of the bejeweled turban has not yet announced himself, but the leadership discussions promise to be...robust.
PESHAWAR: Authorities in northwestern Pakistan battling a Taliban insurgency announced on Saturday the establishment of an Islamic court.

Dar-ul-Qaza, an Islamic appellate court, was set up for the Malakand division of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). NWFP authorities agreed in February to enforce Islamic sharia law there in the hope that militants would shun violence.

"Dar-ul-Qaza was the main demand and it has been met. Now there is no justification to take up arms," provincial information minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told a news conference. "But if they take up arms even after this announcement, keep on challenging the government and try to run a parallel government, then the government will stop them at all costs."
Posted by: Seafarious 2009-05-06
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