Toward the end of today's long report in the New York Times on the Taliban's increasing power in Pakistan are the following three sentences:
Even in Mingora, a town grown hardened to violence, residents were shocked early this month to find the bullet-ridden body of one of the city's most famous dancing girls splayed on the main square.
Known as Shabana, the woman was visited at night by a group of men who claimed to want to hire her for a party. They shot her to death and dragged her body more than a quarter-mile to the central square, leaving it as a warning for anyone who would flout Taliban decrees.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/world/asia/25swat.html?_r=1&scp=3&sq=pakistan%20radio%20taliban&st=cse
Final paragraphs of the story detail the new ban on girls attending school in the Swat valley, reporting that 169 girls' schools have been destroyed and most will stay closed rather than try to reopen with the beginning of the next school year in February 2010.
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