New Delhi: Justice was meted out Taliban style in Pakistan's Swat valley to a teenage girl whose crime was that she left her house with a man who wasn't her husband.
She was whipped until she was bleeding and bruised; however, she managed to walk away.
Barely a week ago, in the lawless Khyber Agency, two blindfolded men were delivered justice by being shot in front of a whole village for killing a taxi driver.
Incidents such as these have increased ever since the Pakistani government signed peace deals with the Taliban in Swat this year and other extremists in the Bajour Agency that has paved the way for Shariat Courts to be set up.
Far away in America, compelled to cut growing losses, Washington is preparing to talk to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton said, "The vast majority of Taliban fighters and members are people who are not committed to a cause so much as acting out of desperation. And therefore on offer is not only reconciliation, but a chance for them to be re-integrated into Afghan society."
The Taliban Clinton wants to talk to are not very different from the men in nearby Pakistan already legitimised by the government in control and roaming freely.
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