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India-Pakistan
NWFP government acknowledges damage to billboards
2008-05-04
The NWFP government on Saturday acknowledges FridayÂ’s incident in which the skins of billboards carrying pictures of women were removed allegedly by the Shabab-e-Milli (SM), the youth wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI).

NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told Daily Times the government condemned whoever did this. “What will the administration do if people take the law into their own hands at their own free will?” he asked.
Most likely nothing.
The minister said that if billboards were not considered offensive in remaining three provinces of the country, how they could be considered offensive in NWFP. “It is cheap popularity tactic and we would take notice of it. Either government agencies or some other people are involved in it,” he said.

Mian Iftikhar said that one JI leader owned an advertising agency in Lahore, however their local leadership was destroying billboards in NWFP, which he said was a double standard.

Shabab-e-Milli: Shabab-e-Milli provincial president Abdul Qadir Saraf said that his organisation had not removed the billboards. Concerning the deadline given by his organisation for the purpose, he said that its Peshawar chapter president had issued the deadline, and had also held a meeting with the district nazim and director City Development and Municipal Department (CD&MD) on the issue.

“We are thankful to the city district government and provincial government for removing these billboards,” he said. Saraf said that had the billboards been defaced by his organisation, they would have accepted responsibility for it.
Posted by:Fred

#3  A Winnah!!!!
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2008-05-04 18:27  

#2  Girl on the Billboard. ;-)

Who is the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in a field near the big old highway
Rollin' down the highway in my Jimmy, haulin' freight
From Chicago to St Louis, Lord, I see her every day
Oh, a double clutchin' weasel like me can hardly ever get
A girl to look at him that way
Smilin' like the girl wearin' nothin' but a smile and a towel
In the picture on the billboard in the field near the big old highway ....
Posted by: lotp   2008-05-04 12:42  

#1  Somewhere; Dave Dudley is crying. (Old CW song reference; 10 points for first correct title submission)
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2008-05-04 11:51  

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