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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Search Search: Pakistan militants mull permanent ceasefire AFP - 2 hours 38 minutes ago MINGORA, Pakistan (AFP) - - Pakistani pro-Taliban militants on Sunday said they would decide within days whether to call a permanent ceasefire in a wild region near the Afghan border after the government agreed to allow Islamic sharia law. ADVERTISEMENT Muslim Khan, spokesman for militant leader Maulana Fazlullah, said the hardliners would review their current 10-day truce in the Swat valley when it runs out on Wednesday. "We declared a 10-day ceasefire just after the agreement was signed and you will see an exemplary peace prevail in the valley once sharia is enforced," Khan told AFP. "In the next five or six days, our shoora is meeting and it will decide about a permanent ceasefire," he said. The militants led a deadly campaign to enforce Islamic law until calling a truce last week, when authorities signed a deal recognising the code in the troubled valley. Fazlullah said the ceasefire, widely seen as a concession by the Pakistani authorities, would be made permanent provided the militants were confident about the government's intentions. "We can do a permanent ceasefire if the government builds confidence about its intentions," Fazlullah said on his illegal radio station. He was speaking after talks with pro-Taliban cleric Soofi Mohammad, who signed the deal with the government. No date has been announced for when sharia law would take effect. It is also not clear how the system, which supporters say will be faster than the penal courts, will be implemented or who will be responsible for justice. Thousands of Fazlullah's supporters have spent nearly two years waging a terrifying campaign to enforce sharia law in Swat, beheading opponents, bombing girls' schools, outlawing entertainment and fighting government forces. Past peace deals between the government and militants have collapsed. Gaps also emerged on Sunday on whether Fazlullah would allow girls' schools to re-open. "Girls can take examinations, but after covering themselves according to sharia. The shoora (Fazlullah's consultative council) will decide about their education," Fazlullah said on the radio. Pakistan's deal provoked alarm in the United States, Europe, Afghanistan and India, where governments are worried it will embolden militants in the North West Frontier Province, which is rife with Taliban and Al-Qaeda extremists. Many in Pakistan's secular elite are appalled that the government agreed to sharia in Swat, once a princely state and the country's only ski resort, which is just a few hours' drive from the capital Islamabad. Meanwhile, cleric Mohammad on Sunday held a meeting with his close aides in Mingora to review the situation, his spokesman Ameer Izzat told AFP. "Maulana Soofi Mohammad today held a meeting with his advisors and discussed the situation Swat, restoration of peace and imposition of sharia," Izzat told AFP. "The Maulana also took his advisors into confidence on the negotiations with Fazlullah," he added. The top government official in Swat, district commissioner Syed Mohammad Javed, said Saturday that Fazlullah had already agreed to a permanent ceasefire. He also said that although boys' schools will reopen from Monday, "talks are in progress with the Taliban to reopen girls' schools". The president of the private schools' association, Ziauddin Yousafzai, said all private schools would reopen Monday. Javed said some 100 schools destroyed or burnt by the Taliban would be rebuilt and that classes until then would be held in tents. Residents of Mingora, the main town in Swat, said life was returning to normal under the temporary ceasefire. "Markets and bazaars are crowded and traffic police are back on the roads," resident Ghafoor Khan told AFP by telephone. "You feel at ease when going out... We can sleep fearlessly. The dreadful gunfire we used to hear every night has ended. People are returning to their homes and several families in my neighbourhood have come back," he said. The regional police chief, Shaukat Hayat, also asked all personnel who fled during the unrest to return to duty. 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