RIGHTS-PAKISTAN:
Back to School in Swat, But for How Long?
By Ashfaq Yusufzai

MINGORA, Pakistan, Apr 27 (IPS) - Tiny Sheema is happy to be back in school in Swat, a volatile northern district in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

In 2007, Swat was overrun by armed Pakistani Taliban, who deliberately bombed schools, forced bareheaded women to wear burqas and men to grow beards in an attempt to impose a radical Islam, similar to that enforced by the former Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan.