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| Tribesmen seek protection from Taliban |
| 2007-05-09 |
| HANGU: People dealing in CDs and owning net cafés here have asked the government to protect their businesses against ‘Taliban’ threats. “We have received threatening letters and demand protection from the state,” Muhammad Rafique Khan, owner of a net café in Hangu bazaar, told reporters after a protest demonstration in front of the Hangu Press Club on Tuesday. Tuesday’s protest demonstration was the first of its kind where locals demanded that the MMA government protect them against militant threats. “We have invested money and we want a profit,” Khan said, adding that the government “looks indifferent as no one from the district administration is lending a helping hand” to guard CD shops and net cafés against militant threats. |
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