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...says Yaqoob, she was punched in the face. The doctor reported the attack to company managers who, according to Yaqoob, refused to allow her to file a police case. (Three senior PPL officials were arrested and charged on Friday with obstructing justice.) Workers at PPL reported the incident to Akbar Khan Bugti, the Nawab (or ruler) of the powerful Bugti clan. He says they told him the assailants were four soldiers in the Pakistani army. (Government troops protect the gas facilities.) Says the Nawab: "This gang rape took place on our land, in our midst. It has blackened our name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Code of the Frontier | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...negotiating with us." Three days after Bush was re-elected, the Supreme Leader made a conciliatory gesture in his nationally televised Friday sermon. Directly addressing Bush, Khamenei said, "No, sir, we are not seeking to have nuclear weapons." Some Iranian officials insist that a compromise is within reach. Ali Akbar Salehi, a former representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) who still advises the government, told TIME in an interview last week that Iran's enrichment facilities could perhaps be privatized via an Iranian-European partnership to help eliminate skepticism about secret Iranian intentions. Mohammed Javad Larijani, a pragmatic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Still Defiant | 12/17/2004 | See Source »

...school in makeshift classrooms. But the Bamis, as they are called, are barely beginning to recover from the disappearance of their prized city, especially the imposing Citadel, which protected them against invading armies throughout Iran's history. "Bam without the Citadel is like a beehouse without honey," says Akbar Panjalizadeh, 61, a retired high school teacher. He owns a hostel for backpackers, where a tourist - a British motorcyclist - perished in the quake. Nonetheless, Panjalizadeh is busy rebuilding the guesthouse, sure that Bam will return to its former glory. "The Citadel didn't belong just to Bam, or Iran, it belonged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Year After the Quake: Still Digging Out | 12/12/2004 | See Source »

...Americans attack Iran, the world will change ... They will not dare to make such a mistake." AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI, former Iranian President, describing his country's missile capabilities to a conference on national security in Tehran...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...drink sweet black tea in the twilight. As they lecture me on Islam, a roar cuts across the conversation. From the other side of the farmhouse, less than 50 yds. away, a missile soars over us with a thunderous screech--bound for a nearby encampment housing U.S. Marines. "Allahu akbar," they all mutterGod is great. Minutes later, the imam makes the evening call to prayer. The 50 militants gathered at the safe house form tight lines behind one of the imams and bow reverently in prayer. Then some leave to get ready to try to kill more Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meet The New Jihad | 7/5/2004 | See Source »

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