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Provincial Minister in Pakistan 'missing'

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, JAN. 13. The Sports and Culture Minister of Punjab, Naeemullah Shahani, has been missing since his arrival in the Frontier tribal agency bordering Afghanistan on January 10.

According to reports, the Minister drove to Miram Shah, headquarters of the North Waziristan agency bordering Afghanistan, in his private vehicle and visited a friend.

When he was on his way back home, he went missing.

The Punjab Government requested the NWFP Government to locate him.

The provincial government had tightened security on all routes leading to and coming from the tribal belt.

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