AFP: WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday that an accord signed by Pakistan's president putting part of the country under Islamic law in a bid to combat the Taliban went against human rights and democracy.
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said that the Obama administration believed that "solutions involving security in Pakistan don't include less democracy and less human-rights.
"The signing of that denoting strict Islamic law in the Swat valley goes against both of those principles." >>> Copyright © 2009 AFP. All rights reserved | Tuesday, April 14, 2009
