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Environmentalists call for end to popular bonfire festival held in memory of Pakistani saint

  • 300-year-old Machh ritual annually marks death anniversary of Bahram Bari Junejo
  • Wood used for event’s giant bonfire ‘waste’ of scarce forest resources: Sindh activists
By Zulfiqar Kunbhar ·

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