PAKISTAN: “NGOs should leave Swat” – insurgent leader: School girls even in veils are not being permitted in the Swat valley to continue their education
KARACHI, 22 March 2009 (IRIN): Insurgents in Pakistans volatile Swat Valley in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) who recently made a peace deal with the government now want all NGOs to leave the area.
– They come and tell us how to make latrines in mosques and homes. I am sure we can do it ourselves. There is no need for foreigners to tell us this, Muslim Khan, a spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), told IRIN from Swat Valley.
– NGO is another name for vulgarity and obscenity. They do not want us to remain Muslims and want to take away the veil from our women, Khan claimed.
He said NGOs hire women who work alongside men in the field and in offices. – That is totally un-Islamic and unacceptable, he said.
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