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PESHAWAR: Ninth Muharram was observed peacefully amid tight security in the province on Wednesday as 18 big and small mourning processions took place in the provincial metropolis only.Strict.
RAWALPINDI: The sizzling heat and continuous water shortage have made the lives of residents miserable.
The residents of cantonment areas including Chur Chowk, Afshan Colony, Tench Bhatta, Meharabad, Habib Colony, Dhoke Hafiz and Misrial Road lodged complaints with the civic agencies about water shortage.
Saleem Ahmed, a resident of Afshan Colony, said they had been facing watershortage since the start of the summer season. He said Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) charged the residents for water every month but supplied the basic commodity for half an hour after two days.
Sajid Khan, a resident of Tench Bhatta, said that there was a dire need to arrange waterfor the residents as they had to go to other colonies to fetch water.
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MEERUT/AGRA/BAREILLY: Negotiating a maze of marked and unmarked graves, a group of mourners approached Babar Alam with a body.
He hurriedly led them towards the extreme north of the graveyard, off the beaten path, where a row of freshly dug graves were waiting. Alam asked them to choose anyone of them, and they did. A little while later, as the body was being lowered and one of the mourners was sobbing helplessly, an earthmover was busy digging more pits, nearby.
As secretary of Agra’s Panchkuian Kabristan, Alam says that he has never seen such a rush of bodies. It had prompted him to ask for an earthmover from the civic body.
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