Having cracked the whip to bar girls from schooling, serving summons to politicians and lawmakers, Taliban now in control of Pakistan's northwestern region of Swat valley, have issued an ultimatum to lawyers.

Branding the present Pakistani jurisprudence as "infidel judicial system", the Taliban have told the lawyers to stay away from the courts or they will be killed.

Vowing to enforce their version of Islamic Shariah law, the Taliban's diktat caused such a panic among the lawyers in the region that they are making contacts with militant commanders saying they were ready to implement their instructions. The threat was announced over Taliban's clandestinely-run FM radio channel.