From The National:
Chitral, Pakistan: There are new casualties in the hunt for Osama bin Laden: yak-mounted, polo-playing herdsmen who have been told to shift their annual competition from a remote corner of Pakistan for “security reasons”.
Pakistan’s intelligence, the Inter-Services Intelligence, has ordered polo players to move their contest to a neighbouring district because the current site is too near a secret CIA surveillance post.
The hugely popular festival takes place in the Hindu Kush mountains – on what is probably the highest polo ground in the world – in Chagril, on the ancient Silk Road bordering Afghanistan’s Wakhan corridor.
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