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Taliban-like diktats

Jammu Dec. 24. Close on the heels of the `beheading' of some women in Rajouri region, a militant outfit has circulated posters directing Muslims to follow a set of guidelines like the Taliban had done in Afghanistan.

Undersigned by an outfit called Lashker-e-Jabbar, circulars have appeared in a Degree College in Rajouri town, directing women to wear burqas and men to wear caps and grow beards in keeping with Islamic traditions.

The Muslim women have also been asked to desist from going to schools and colleges, have a male escort while going out of the house and sit separately from men in buses, police sources said here today.

The outfit has also asked the men to wear a cap and sport beards, they said, adding that it had warned the people against defying their diktats.

PTI

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