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Taliban stop festival

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Local Taliban have threatened residents of a Dera Ismail Khan village to give up their annual spring fair with a religious group saying it will hold a conference to eulogise Mujahideen in its place, Daily Times has learnt. The fair is an annual event in Shah Alam village in Durabin that begin from April 1. “People compete in games such as archery and kabaddi and young and old alike participate in the three-day fair,” one resident said. However, Taliban have told the people the fair is “un-Islamic”. Ahl-e-Sunnat-wal-Jamaat has announced that it would hold “Azmat-e-Muajhid Conference” at the place where the fair is held every year and leaders of Sipah-e-Sahaba have been invited on the occasion. staff report

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