today

Taliban style vigilantism is visible on the streets of the Pakistani capital Islamabad and it is getting shriller.

Militant, burka-clad schoolgirls have stepped up their drive for a Taliban-style Islamic regime in Pakistan by launching "vice and virtue" demanding the closure of music and video stores.

Pro-Taliban militants firing rockets attacked a town and kidnapped the principal of a school where they had tried and failed to recruit students as suicide attackers. One security force member was killed.

So they are trying to close down the Pakistani army's entertainment centres. Interesting, as clearly some participants in this trade are not voluntary, i.e. they are slave workers - and strictly the UN probably should have intervened by now. But I doubt that would suit anyone as the UN, whatever its value, is not too keen on actually doing anything. This makes local extreme measures more likely as sometimes nothing else can be done. Also there have been many pedophile scandals within the UN, though admittedly probably fewer than in, for example, organised US religious groups.