Authorities in Pakistan have "indefinitely postponed" local elections scheduled for October, saying the security situation means it is too dangerous to hold them.
But opposition parties see it as a bid for greater power for the central government, with locally elected Nazims, or mayors, replaced by non-elected government officials.
David Loyn reports from Attock, in the North West Frontier.
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