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cantonment

Military esp formerly
History a permanent military camp in British India
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One afternoon I sent Vixen home alone in the dog-cart (Garm had gone before), and rode over to cantonments to find another friend of mine, who was an Irish soldier and a great friend of the dog's master.
There's a man in my company now asked me for leave to go back to cantonments to pay a debt he'd forgotten.
And as each man reported himself, he said: "This is a bad business," and went about his own forthwith, for every Regiment and Battery in the cantonment was under canvas, the sickness bearing them company.
On the evening of the same day, Mulcahy, an unconsidered corporal - yet great in conspiracy - returned to cantonments, and heard sounds of strife and howlings from afar off.
Even within Karachi, the ambit of SSWMB is far from absolute as certain areas are beyond the city administration's control and administrated directly by cantonment boards or federal government bodies like the Karachi Port Trust, Civil Aviation Authority and Pakistan Railways.
In a cantonment, a station commander is also responsible for the wellbeing of residents of the cantonment home of soldiers.
ISLAMABAD -- The Supreme Court (SC) Thursday directed the cantonment boards of all over the country to remove the structures that used to hold up billboards in six weeks.
They expressed fear that the situation would become worse in the coming days as Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) had no effective strategy to cope with the situation.
ISLAMABAD -- National Assembly Standing Committee on Defence was told on Tuesday that Sindh and Balochistan provinces owe millions of rupees to the Cantonment Boards.
During the meeting, matters pertaining to beautification, cleanliness, sanitation and transfer of property in Quetta Cantonment area came under discussion.
A meeting was held in Governor House with senior officers of Sindh's all Cantonment boards under the chairmanship of Governor Sindh, Imran Ismail.