Finally, police in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province raided 23 cinemas and dozens of video stores - Brickbats - Brief Article

Reason, April, 2003 by Charles Oliver

Finally, police in Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province raided 23 cinemas and dozens of video stores, charging them with showing or selling obscene films. The charges surprised the proprietors, since the national censorship board had cleared all the movies. But the province is now ruled by a coalition of Islamist parties that have begun enforcing a version of sharia much stricter than that used in the rest of the country.

The province also has banned music and ordered buses to stop mid route at prayer times.