Rather, Muslims out to “impose a puritan code of religious conduct.” “Pakistani Taliban target Sufi shrines,” by Tom Hussain for The National, March 10:
ISLAMABAD // The Pakistani Taliban have launched a series of attacks on Sufi shrines around the north-west city of Peshawar that have been linked to a campaign to impose a puritan code of religious conduct.
In the highest profile attack to date, militants early on Thursday struck at the shrine of Rehman Baba, a 17th-century Sufi saint and revered poet of the Pashto language. Militants planted explosives against the columns of the mausoleum in Peshawar, causing extensive damage to the structure. It was empty at the time. They struck again late on Thursday, firing rockets at the shrine of Bahadar Baba, located in hills near Nowshera, 40km east of Peshawar…