Sikhs in Pak to pay Rs 20m to Taliban

I see the following attempt to threaten and blackmail a religious minority as a travesty and worse, further prooof of the erosion of the writ of the GoP. ~~~t

Islamabad, April 16: The Sikh community of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Orakzai Agency has conceded to the demand of the Taliban to pay them Rs 20 million as jiziya (religious tax) in return for "protection".
According to the Daily Times, following the community’s decision to accept the demands of the Taliban, the outlawed group released Sikh leader Sardar Saiwang Singh from its captivity, and also vacated several houses that they had captured.
Officials said the Taliban has announced that the Sikhs were now free to live anywhere in the agency and carry on their work, the Daily Times reports.