Pakistan takes aim at Sim cards in anti-terror drive

Men gather around a canopy set up by a mobile phone company near a small rural market in Tirkhi Nangyal, a small village about an hour’s drive south-east of the capital Islamabad.
They are here to show that the phone connections they own are registered in their own names. If they are not, their service will be shut off by 13 April.
This is one of the many anti-terrorism measures the government has adopted after the deadly attack on Peshawar’s Army Public School on 16 December, in which more than 150 people were killed.
Investigators later found out that the phones used by gunmen were issued in the names of people who had no obvious link to any militant groups.

 

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