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Pakistani blogger Ambreen Kazmi at Chowrangi blog answers the question “Why people of Swat support Taliban”?
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There is no state authority and Taliban are there with guns, brutalizing, mutilating. Do they have a choice? If they did, they would have liked to send their sons and daughters to school and worked hard to provide for them.