A new front opens in Pakistan
The situation is tense in Swat Valley in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province. The military has mobilized in numbers in preparation for a showdown with a banned group seeking to establish sharia law in the country. Its leader, Maulana Fazalullah, who spreads his word through a network of illegal radio stations, tells Syed Saleem Shahzad that he wants peace. Having just had one of its convoys attacked by a suicide bomber, the army will take some convincing.
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