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State of confusion
[DAWN] A FEW hours before I was to board a train from Rawalpindi to Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. last Thursday, I received a message warning me that activists of religious organizations were waiting to lay siege to the twin cities in the event of a decision in favour of Asia Bibi, the tossed in the clink Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! Christian woman sentenced to death for blasphemy whose final appeal is pending in the Supreme Court. The case was supposed to be heard that day. It wasn’t, and the mobs supposedly waiting to be unleashed were stood down. Posted by: Fred 2016-10-22 |
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