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India-Pakistan
Rs400,000, or hand over your son to the madrassa
2014-05-18
[DAWN] It is one of the weirdest school enrolment drives ever: Surrender a son to the madrassa (religious seminary), or pay 400,000 rupees (US$4,000) instead.

The bully boyz in Pakistain's tribal areas are openly coercing families to hand over their sons, or buy out their freedom.

Only a few miles from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, posters have appeared on walls in the Bara district asking parents to enlist at least one son with a seminary affiliated with Ishat-o-Tauheed, a subsidiary of Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), an outlawed murderous Moslem group headed by Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
Afridi.

The directives are clear. Only those enrolled in seminaries affiliated with LI will count.

The bully boyz perhaps are running short on beachheads or jacket wallahs. The Taliban's rank-and-file are made up of orphans or children abandoned by parents because of abject poverty. Militancy, devastating floods, and the earthquake in October 2005 forced the poor affected households to give up their children to religious seminaries.
Posted by:Fred

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