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  • Army sources today said that several groups of militants, equipped with sophisticated weapons, have been brought close to the LOC across Kupwara and keran sector in north Kashmir and across Poonch and Rajouri for assiting them in crossing into Jammu and Kashmir.

    Professional guides to help militants cross into Kashmir 2008

  • We conclude that the Shah's step-father and the little group of holy men clubbed together and paid the Persian guard about a keran to let them in, and perhaps another half-keran to the Armenian farrash for not summarily turning them out.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • The ordinary charge is one keran a farsakh for each horse.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • In response to my inquiries, he points up toward the pass and offers to accompany me thither for the small sum of "yek keran;" giving me to understand that without his presence it is highly indiscreet to proceed.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • The woman readily accepts the offer of an additional half keran for relieving me of the onerous task of cooking my own supper, and takes her departure, promising to cook it as quickly as possible.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • For answer the woman points to a few beruffled chickens scratching for grains of barley among a heap of rubbish that has evidently been exploited by them times without number before, and says she can sell us chickens at one keran apiece.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • "Pool, pool, pool -- keran, keran, keran," the probable amount in my possession, the amount they expect to receive as backsheesh, and kindred speculations concerning the financial aspect of the situation, form almost the sole topic of their conversation.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • Deh Namek is too small and unimportant a place to support a public tchai-khan; but along the Meshed pilgrim road the villagers are keenly alive to the chance of earning a stray keran, and the advent of one of those inexhaustible keran-mines, a "Sahib," is the signal for some enterprising person, sufficiently well-to-do to own a samovar, to get up steam in it and prepare tea.

    Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894

  • Well I did say yesterday that the defence asking for the witness list is just a delay tactic and true enough today the case has been postponed again ... orang melayu kata berani keran benar, takut kerana salah saiful berani berdepan dengan orang yang dia tuduh tapi Anwar dengan pasukan tunda-cat yang begitu ramai masih lagi takut ... kenapa hah???

    SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator 2010

  • He said the Army had prior information about the recent infiltration bid made by militants in keran sector of Kupwara district.

    Analysis 2010

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