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BATTAGRAM, Pakistan - Ibrar Ahmed is relieved to be alive after being stuck on a cable car high over a river in northern Pakistan for 16 hours this week, but now the student wonders how he will make the arduous trek to class each day. "God willing, I am going to continue with my studies, but the way to our...
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For students in areas like Battagram who risk their lives to go to school, that cannot come fast enough.
Numerous accidents have occurred in the past and mostly the local people themselves with some help from the local police rescue the stranded people, says a former policeman