Word: asghar
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That was a common choice. "Robbing houses is easier than finding a job in 'Pindi," says Imran Asghar, a crime reporter for the English-language Daily Times. But to rob a house, Qasab needed weapons. So on Dec. 19, 2007, an important Muslim holiday, he set out for Raja Bazaar, a congested boulevard crammed with gun shops and decorated with hand-painted billboards portraying men hoisting AK-47s. Seeking guns in Raja Bazaar was an amateur move (even in 'Pindi, without a license, you won't get a gun from a shop), but it led Qasab to a LeT stall...
...confession if he ever robbed the house. It doesn't really matter. Crime and terrorism are intertwined - illicit weapons-trading, drugs, smuggling and kidnap-for-ransom schemes fund terrorist networks all around the world. In Pakistan, the connection is deeply ingrained. "When someone commits a crime," says Asghar, "there are so many hands to support him but so few to pull him out. And if I feel guilty for what I have done, I go to mosque. There I am invited to jihad, and I am given a license for paradise. That is where crime and terrorism meet." From...
...When the people's representatives are barred from entering assemblies then what kind of democracy or justice can you expect?" - Ali Asghar Manda, a member of the PML, International Herald Tribune...
...What role should a Muslim woman play in reducing tensions between the Muslim world and the West? -Asghar Mayo in Lahore, Pakistan Muslim women must stand up and speak out about who we are, what we believe and where we are going. I think we need to know that our counterparts in the west are also willing to listen and reciprocate...
...Iran particularly constrained by the fact that the IAEA continues to operate in Iran right now. [And] if Iran makes that threat and carries through on it then I think we?ll have a better and clearer view of what Iran?s intentions really are." And in Vienna, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, Iran's chief representative to the IAEA, told the AP that "it is impossible to go back to suspension. This enrichment matter is not reversible...