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Taliban leader cracks down on gambling

Monday, Dec. 2, 2002 | 9:41 a.m.

SUN WIRE REPORTS

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The new pro-Taliban government in Pakistan's sensitive North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan vowed to impose Islamic law and crack down on alcohol use, ban playing of music and videos in buses and cars and prohibit gambling dens.

"We cannot allow the VCRs and tape recorders in passenger vehicles in our province," Akram Durrani of Muttahida Majlis e-Amal said after he was elected as chief minister of the Province Friday, the Press Trust of India reported.

"Implementation of Islamic laws will be our first priority," he said.

"Pubs and gambling dens will be closed soon," the 42-year-old Durrani told the Assembly amid assertions by the opposition that there were no such pubs and gambling outlets in Pakistan.

Alcohol consumption and gambling are already illegal under Pakistani law, though violations frequently occur in private.

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