Word: ahmad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Traveling at an early age with his father, a nutritionist, around their native country of Bangladesh, Kamal Ahmad, ODN's co-founder, first became interested in the problems of the poor. "Growing up in Bangladesh is an education in development," he says. "It is a country always in crisis...
Hojatoleslam Ahmad Khomeini, 42. Khomeini's son Ahmad, chief of staff for the Iranian leader, is a skillful behind-the-scenes power broker. He wields great influence by controlling who sees his father, and officials curry his favor. Ahmad Khomeini has no formal position in the government nor any well-defined set of followers, but his prestige as the son of the charismatic sage could take...
...wife, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Fareena Sultan, age 36, and the couple's 5-year-old daughter flew to Karachi Friday night to recover Ahmad's body, Costa said. Sultan was informed of her husband's death by Pan Am airlines officials and friends in Pakistan, he said...
...close friend of Ahmad's said he was "very involved in the community, very social, very popular...
...ironic that terrorists brought Ahmad to his death because "he was a supporter of all kinds of people," said the friend, Gazala Sabiq. "Like if someone went on a shooting spree, he would have said, 'Well, maybe society failed them,''' according to Sabiq, who said she knew Ahmad for 11 years...