Taliban cut hair, beards to flee Pakistan army assault

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Taliban fighters cut hair and beards to flee Pakistan army assault in North Waziristan

BANNU (PAKISTAN): Hundreds of Taliban fighters rushed to disguise themselves with new haircuts in the weeks before a Pakistani army assault, it has emerged, as refugees revealed details of life under the militants — and their taste for imported luxuries.

Azam Khan was one of the top barbers in Miranshah — the main town of North Waziristan — until he, like nearly half a million others, fled the long-awaited offensive unleashed by the Pakistan military on the tribal area in June.

He told AFP his business boomed in the month leading up to the army assault as the militants sought to shed their distinctive long-haired, bearded look.

"I have trimmed the hair and beards of more than 700 local and Uzbek militants ahead of the security forces' operation," he said while cutting hair in a shop in Bannu, the town where most civilians fled.

For years he cut Taliban commanders' hair to match the flowing locks of former Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leader Hakimullah Mehsud, killed by a US drone last November, but in May a change in style was called for.

"The same leaders came asking for trimming their beards and hair very short, saying that they were going to the Gulf and wanted to avoid problems at Pakistani airports," Khan said.

Even Uzbeks and Tajiks with little knowledge of the local language came to him, he said.

"Knowing little Pashto, they used to utter four words: 'mulgari (friend), machine, zero, Islamabad'," said Khan — asking him to shave their beards to nothing so they could go to Islamabad
Source: Taliban fighters cut hair and beards to flee Pakistan army assault in North Waziristan - The Times of India
 

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Now that is really a sad state.

weren't they the one who were wanting to implement the Islamic guidelines seriously and truly?

Beard is a part of the 'accoutrements' of the male physical form..
 

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The whole country is filled with cowards who know how to make a lot of noise you have the sarkari ghazis the Army that basically bombs its own civilians and disallows entry of refugees into other states in their own country and then you have the mullahs' ghazis, they'll use cannon fodder(No, not the FC in this case) to blow themselves up and shoot/behead unarmed people ISIS style but they too are made of the same bluff. The second the sh*t hits the fan, both scurry away to their mommies.
 

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This is haram,how can they do this!:p
You know, now that I think about it, it could very well be a rumor being spread by their ISPR. Just like how one ghazi is equal to 10 hindoo kuffar and djinns shielding their soldiers during the '65 war, this could be another attempt at this propaganda. Knowing the operation in advance, they would have just left across the porous border to Afghanistan. Why cut the beard and remain in Pakistan?

And it talks about Uzbeks getting it done. Ummm.... As if the uzbeks, who are obviously not vacationing in Pakistan, will be able to blend in with the local population just by shaving their beard. Are these guys stupid or what?
 
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It's heartening to see Pakis tasting their own medicine in even a bitter way which they tried to give us.

They started insurgencies and cross border terrorism and now fighting it for the last 10 years.

It's just a start and would end in violent and bloody Balkanization of a so called nation named as "Pakistan".
 

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