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...Pakistan, heroes are in short supply. But ask any Pakistani whom they admire most, and they'll all mention the name of a former shopkeeper, a poor man from Karachi named Abdul Sattar Edhi. Karachi is a violent town; there are murders most every night. Gang wars, vendettas, crimes over women or money. And nobody collected the bodies. Then, a few years back, Edhi started going around the city at night with a cart, gathering up the bodies as though they were his own kin, washing them and giving then a decent Muslim burial. He still does that...
...Hekmatullah's house cracked apart like an egg. So did Hekmatullah. A bullet shattered his leg, and another lodged itself inches from his spine. His brother Abdul Halim rushed him to Kandahar hospital. But that night there were dozens of wounded, lying in the corridors on a stinking, bloodstained floor, and the doctors had fled during the night's bombing...
...That was the start of Hekmatullah's odyssey of pain. With the two bullets still lodged in his body, Hekmatullah endured a day's drive over pitted roads to a hospital in Helmand province. "My brother was screaming all the time," Abdul Halim recalls. But no doctors were there, either. Nor were there any other painkillers or anesthetics. With so many Afghans fleeing the cities, another six days passed before Abdul Halim found a car that would take him past Kandahar to the Chaman border, a distance of over 150 miles. Imagine riding six days over dirt roads with...
...Bush called "friendly troops." By the week's end a U.S. spokesman announced that a small number of special forces were already on the ground in southern Afghanistan. The Taliban defiantly announced that they are ready and eager to avenge the air raids, and their envoy to Pakistan, Abdul Salam Zaeef, said they would not hand over bin Laden...
...Reports suggested a split in the Taliban leadership over the price to the Afghan people of hosting bin Laden, with moderate Foreign Minister Abdul Wakil Muttawakil keeping such a low profile that he was thought to have defected. There were also reports from southern and eastern Afghanistan that Taliban police are incensed by the arrogance of bin Laden's fighters, and have clashed with them. In Jalalabad one of bin Laden's associates died in an explosion, apparently handling a hand grenade: sources named him as Abu Baseer al-Masri...