Is Pakistan bowing to the Taliban? | France 24

15 April 2009 - 09H40

- Asif Ali Zardari - Pakistan - Taliban

Is Pakistan bowing to the Taliban?

The rule of Islamic Sharia law is now official across a vast swathe of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, including the Swat valley.Critics fear it is a further step towards the Talibanisation of Northwest Pakistan.

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