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Fashionistas Dress Down the Taliban - The Triple Assault

On November 4th, 2009, Fashion Pakistan launched the country’s first Fashion Week. The four-day event, taking place during an army offensive in South Waziristan, was postponed twice due to security fears. The event was held in Karachi, where, according to Dawn Media Group, Islamic militants engage in crime and kidnapping to bankroll the insurgency in the northwest. It has been more than a month since the completion of Fashion week and since, the event was successful at casting a triple assault on the Taliban – an assault on the unstable security situation they have created, an assault on the economic structure they hope to impose, and an assault on the religious paradigm they seek to establish.