Stop wearing shirts and trousers or face suicide bombing

The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has allegedly warned doctors of the public sector hospitals in Peshawar, the NWFP capital, to stop wearing shirts and trousers or face suicide bombing. A senior doctor at the Lady Reading Hospital told the media they had received a letter from the TTP, asking doctors and all other medical staff to immediately stop wearing shirts and trousers or suicide bombers would target them at their institutions. Two other senior doctors at the Hayatabad Medical Complex and the Khyber Teaching Hospital also confirmed receiving similar threats from the TTP. They said chief utives of all the three hospitals directed their staff members, particularly doctors, to stop wearing shirts and trousers so that they could be saved from suicide bombers. The NWFP Secretary for Health, Dr Sohail Altaf, confirmed the threatening letters that were received by the hospital utives from unknown people. He said he too had received a copy of the letter, adding that he did not believe the Taliban would have sent the letter.