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Swat Market: Women’s Entry Is Prohibited

The above poster was put up by shop-owners on the orders of Taliban militants at the entrance to a market in Mingora, the headquarters of the Swat district of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province,

The text reads: ‘‘Women’s entry into the market is prohibited.’’

Source: Daily Times, Pakistan, January 12, 2009

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