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Afghanistan/South Asia
Hangu police destroy 'vulgar' Ufone billboard, ransack shop
2005-03-19
HANGU: Police ransacked a Ufone dealer's shop on Friday for displaying a billboard with a woman's image.
A woman's image? Oh, horrors! Oh, hold me, Ethel!
Police destroyed the billboard at Insaf Mobile Centre, an authorised dealer of U-Fone, to implement the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal's policy, district police officer Zebullah Khan told Daily Times. DPO Khan said the shopkeeper had been warned against displaying a board with a woman's image but he ignored the warning. He said, "Action against anyone violating the government's stated policy banning the display of women's images on commercial billboards can be taken at any time." Sharifullah, the shop owner, claimed that he had already covered the image on the billboard but the police still damaged his shop. "They broke the board with hammers and then ransacked my shop," he alleged.
I think that was the important part.
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