Word: azhar
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...health care support for the two young stars of their award-winning movie. Lade visits the school three times a week to check on the children's progress, and she says that for the past six months, their attendance has been steadily dipping. "Rubina has 28% attendance, while Azhar has 37%. They didn't even sit for their last examination," Lade says. (See pictures of Slumdog director Danny Boyle...
...attendance was low as she had burned her foot. I couldn't inform the school on time. But I went and apologized later, and requested them not to make an issue out of this. I don't understand why such a big deal is being made out of this." Azhar's mother Shamim says her son has missed school because of his father's death from tuberculosis in September. "These are all rumors," she insists. "A little irregularity has been blown up. Despite the fact that the school is quite far from where we live, I try to send...
...Major General Abbas was at pains to insist that JeM itself - which was implicated in the 2001 attack on the Indian parliament and the murder of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl - was not directly involved. But other observers are not convinced, and say that its fugitive leader, Masood Azhar, is believed to be somewhere in Waziristan. Nor is it clear if the Pakistan army has severed its links entirely with the outlawed terrorist group, as its presence in and around the southern Punjabi city of Bahawalpur grows undisturbed. A heavy concentration of madrasahs in the area has become a breeding ground...
...Palestinians are weak; they are divided. And the Israelis are exploiting this situation," says Talal Okal, a political scientist at Gaza's Al-Azhar University. "I think the Israelis are waiting. They are provoking the Palestinians. They are waiting for rockets. They are trying to escape the American and European pressure on them to freeze the settlements. So this is a way to escape that pressure, at least for a while...
...Monday, thousands turned out for the funeral, raising banners and, according to wire reports, chanting slogans such as "The Germans are the enemies of God" and "Down with Germany." Sherbini's brother told the Associated Press that the family would "avenge her killing" and the Sheik of Al-Azhar, one of Egypt's top government-sponsored religious authorities, called for the maximum punishment for Sherbini's murderer. The Egyptian Pharmacists' Syndicate has even suggested a boycott of German drugs. (See TIME's photos of the Muslim world...