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Video shops attacked, TVs, VCRs burnt

On 12 April 2000, "Islami Tehrik-e-Taliban" activists attacked video shops and destroyed video cassettes, televisions and VCRs in the town of Miranshah, in Pakistan's northwestern tribal area of Waziristan bordering Afghanistan.


According to press reports, the Tehrik had earlier warned that video shop owners, drug traffickers and others involved in immoral businesses would suffer dire consequences if they did not voluntarily shut down such businesses.

Witnesses said the Tehrik's men armed with automatic weapons cordoned off the bazaar and took
positions on the rooftops of buildings. Some of the armed men then stormed the video and music shops in the bazaar and started throwing out the video and audio cassettes, televisions and VCRs
which were later set on fire. Later the local administration closed down all video and music shops to avoid any untoward incident.