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Times of India<\/a>
\nMarch 8, 2010<\/p>\n

ISLAMABAD: A delegation of Pakistani lawmakers refused to subject themselves to a controversial full-body scan at a Washington airport<\/span><\/span>, a media<\/a> report said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The six-member group of the parliament members from Pakistan<\/a>\u2019s restive tribal region cut short their official US<\/a> visit immediately to return home, the Pakistani Express News<\/a> channel said. It was the first official delegation that refused to go through the body scanners<\/a> since they were installed at 19 US<\/a> airports last month.<\/p>\n

Abbas Afridi, the head of the delegation, said the US<\/a> state department had invited them to Washington to discuss security and development projects in the tribal region, with a promise that they would not be subjected to body scanning. \u201cWe were not scanned when we arrived on March 28 in Washington from Pakistan<\/a>, but on Saturday when we wanted to travel<\/span><\/span> to another city the authorities told us<\/a> that we would be scanned,\u201d said Afridi.<\/p>\n

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