DARGAI, June 26: A large number of workers of various political and religious parties took out a procession and held a demonstration here the other day to protest against the abolition of the Levies force and extension of the Police Act to the Malakand Agency.

The workers of the Pakistan Muslim League and the Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal and representatives of various associations of traders chanted slogans in the Dargai Bazaar against the agency’s merger with the settled areas and the elimination of the local Levies force. They blocked a main road for several hours.

They demanded withdrawal of the police force from the Malakand Agency.

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