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Loose lips

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26.04.2026

PAKISTANIS have by now gained something of an international reputation for their gallows humour, but it seems that Islamabad Police never received the memo. They arrested a citizen on what appear to be fairly serious charges over what, prima facie, seems to have been a dry remark likening the Tarnol Railway Crossing in the federal capital to the still-besieged Strait of Hormuz. Perhaps irked by a traffic hold-up due to a passing train, the citizen reportedly posted on social media that “Tarnol Railway........

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