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...came to Jamia Hafsa to interview its headmistress, Umma Hassan, for a story about Islam in Pakistan. Aman, a pretty 22-year-old student in her final year, was her translator. Before the interview started, Aman talked about her desire to live according to the teachings of Islam, and how angry she was that her government did not support her. Students and teachers from both the men's and women's schools have embarked on an antivice campaign in the capital, shutting down video and music shops for promoting un-Islamic behavior. Twice now, the female students have abducted alleged...
...State of Siege Umma Aman tells me she is prepared to die for her god. This is the kind of rhetoric I've come to expect from students at Jamia Hafsa, the women's seminary attached to Lal Masjid. I am not expecting an immediate demonstration of her faith. But during a six-hour battle between students and Pakistani paramilitary forces, which ended with four students, one policeman and several bystanders, including a local journalist, dead, and scores injured, it's clear these seminarians do not take their religion lightly...
...Come on, we are going out to protest," says Aman, now recognizable only by the glasses perched on the outside of her burqa mask. I follow her outside the madrasah gate where a hundred or so black-robed women chant in unison against Musharraf and Bush. A crack, a small explosion, and a cloud of acrid tear gas drifts our way, fronted by a pack of stampeding men. Apparently they tried to occupy the neighboring Environment Ministry...
Rugged rural Wyoming and steamy French Polynesia may seem worlds apart, but for the owners of luxury hotel group Aman Resorts, both locales share the same key qualities: charisma, tranquillity and unspoiled terrain. So that's how the luxury hotel group better known for its isolated tropical retreats - aman means "peace" in Sanskrit - came to Jackson Hole,[an error occurred while processing this directive] its only U.S. property. Building the 40-suite Amangani hotel was a test of endurance, as it took 10 years to acquire the plot, but for the group's founder, Indonesian Adrian Zecha, it was love...
...autocratic King on the other, is the country that is difficult for tourists to enjoy, its streets silent after dark, its character less free and easy than stuck and stricken. As for Bhutan, its citizens can now take in Sex and the City on TV, watch foreigners check into Aman luxury hotels for $700 a night, and hear about the local incarnate lama who is fêted in Hollywood for his movie The Cup. Thimphu is the place on which foreign sights are set (even though fewer than 10,000 official tourists still visit every year), not Kathmandu...