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Pakistan's Women Only Police Station

How Karachi got an all female police station in 1994; Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi on heavy metal history plus the 2011 Syrian protests that led to war, WW2 women code breakers and Sophie Tucker, the last of the Red Hot Mamas
(Photo: Police officers Syeda Ghazala (L) Shagufta Majeed (R) in Karachi)

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Mon 15 Feb 201604:06GMT
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