In a remarkable display of communal harmony, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s residents stood shoulder to shoulder with their Hindu compatriots as the three-day Maha Shivaratri celebrations opened at the Hindu Dargah in the heart of Peshawar’s old city on Friday night.
The gesture – whose precedent was set earlier by the province’s inhabitants as part of tradition – was all the more meaningful this year in the wake of a recent wave of terrorist attacks across the country.
The K-P police have maintained strict security and set up a special control...
