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Quotes About: "It's no secret about Wali Karzai and drugs. A lot of people in the Afghan government are involved in drug trafficking." - U.S. informant Hajji Aman Kheri, alleging Karzai's involvement in the heroin trade (New York Times...
...British Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the verdict "monstrous" and urged the United Nations Security Council to impose an international arms embargo on the regime. Malaysia's Foreign Minister Anifah Aman expressed "grave concern" over the verdict and called for an urgent meeting of his counterparts in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional organization that is usually supportive of Burma. A global arms embargo is "the most effective way of showing this military dictatorship that it can no longer defy the international community," says Zoya Phan of London-based advocacy group Burma Campaign...
...nearby forest. When daylight broke, they scaled the hills and made their way to Shewa Adda, a village near the town of Swabi. "My daughter was born four days after we arrived," says Khan. The camp, now home to 500 families like the Khans, has been named after her: Aman, the Urdu word for peace. (Watch TIME's video "The Challenge on the Ground in Afghanistan...
...temperatures nudge past the 100? mark. The people of Buner and Swat - who are more accustomed to cool mountain air - are suffering from dehydration, skin rashes, diarrhea and the mounting threat of disease. Dust has caused respiratory infections, and there are widespread psychiatric problems, doctors visiting the camps report. Aman's mother was one of 66,000 pregnant woman estimated by the U.N. to be among the displaced. A few tragically lost their babies while fleeing the war zone; most have no access to obstetricians...
...Back at Aman camp, Liaqat Tarakai inspects a building that once served as a storage facility for his tobacco. "I am going to make this into a hospital," he says. "We will have a ward, equipment, everything." But even he realizes there are limits on how much he can do, and for how long. The army claims to have cleared much of Buner and has begun to call residents back. In the coming weeks, Aman's parents may be able to take their baby home. "But the Swatis will be staying," says Tarakai, "for some time...