Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/pakistan-approves-use-of-islamic-law-in-swat-valley Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday signed a measure imposing Islamic law in the country's northwestern Swat Valley as part of a deal to end two years of fighting with pro-Taliban militants in the region. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. GWEN IFILL: Finally tonight, the decision of the Pakistan government made final yesterday to allow Sharia Islamic law to be imposed in the Swat Valley. The government agreed several weeks ago to hand over control to local clerics and the Taliban.Correspondent Nick Paton Walsh of Independent Television News explained what happened since.NICK PATON WALSH, ITN'S CHANNEL 4 NEWS CORRESPONDENT: There's a new law in part of Pakistan. It's the Taliban's, and it's close to medieval. This man is accused of having gay sex, but there's no tolerance for him here, just a long, public flogging. They're happy for us to film and show their kind of justice."Now he's received his punishment in this world," says the militant. "Don't talk to him about it."Mobile phone footage shows a woman this time accused of adultery. She can't shield herself. Held down outside her home, her screams act as a warning to her neighbors: There's a new way of life here in Pakistan's Swat Valley.But there is a system behind this rough justice. Religious elders arrive for the very first session of a new Islamic court. There are prayers before judgment in this system that means the rules of the Koran, not the state, take precedence.It's a break from the corruption of the past, a spokesman insisted to reporters.