PESHAWAR: Bus drivers in northwest Pakistan have begun removing audio and video equipment from their vehicles after Taliban militants threatened suicide attacks against those who played music or movies for their passengers, an industry official said.
Transport workers in Mardan town received letters this week from militants saying that buses offering such entertainment were guilty of spreading ``vulgarity and obscenity,'' Walid Mir, general secretary of the town's transport union, said.
The militants said they would check the buses and that suicide attacks would be carried out against vehicles that still had audio and video equipment--promptin
The Taliban letter complained that travelling in buses that provide audiovisual entertainment was a ``source of mental agony for pious people,'' according to a text obtained by AP.
``It is obligatory on us to stop such violations. We request you to remove the vulgar systems ... otherwise suicide bombers are ready,'' the letter said.
Mardan lies in the Northwest Frontier Province just outside Pakistan's volatile tribal belt where extremists among the Taliban, al-Qaida and local groups are waging a violent campaign against authorities in a bid to impose their strict interpretation of Islam.
Elsewhere in northwest Pakistan, extremists have targeted girls' schools, police posts and other symbols of authority.
21 Jan 2009, 2235 hrs IST, AP
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