Word: bahauddin
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...conceal tightly bound units with a fighting philosophy that places greater importance on energy conservation and brutal surprise than on sheer military muscle. "We must make sure that we pick the right time to fight," says Mohammed Kabeer Marzban, a warlord who controls the northern town of Khoja Bahauddin. "Otherwise we will have wasted our soldiers in vain." As the conflict wears on, learning the strange art of Afghan warfare will be critical to American success...
...country. The Northern Alliance, the loose coalition of former mujahedin fighting the Taliban, could play a major role. Abdullah Abdullah, the Alliance?s smooth-talking Foreign Minister, vowed recently that women would be part of any government he helped form. But in the Alliance?s garrison town of Khoja Bahauddin women walk soundlessly in full burka. "The majority of Afghan men do not believe women should have rights," says Farahnaz Nazir, head of the Afghanistan Women?s Association, the only women?s organization operating openly in the country today. "Taliban or Northern Alliance, there are fanatics everywhere...
...Alliance can claim some progress: it allows Nazir?s group to exist. But she is the only woman in Khoja Bahauddin who doesn?t wear a burka in public. Her privileged status as an overseas-educated aid worker partially protects her from the beating Osema received. But when Nazir shakes hands with a Western man, she looks around furtively. It is the same motion countless Afghan women make every day, the rapid adjusting of veils to cover their faces or the eyes quickly downcast when men enter the room. To help empower women, Nazir runs workshops that include reading...
...Northern Alliance also points to schools like the one in Yang-e-Qale, a remote hamlet a half-hour?s jeep ride from Khoja Bahauddin, as proof that it promotes women?s rights. More than 50 veiled girls crowd the Yang-e-Qale school?s first-grade class, reading the Koran. But in the eighth-grade class, only 12 students sit at the desks, their burkas hanging on hooks in the back of their classroom...
...Northern Alliance was shocked at the deaths, even as so many of their regular soldiers are dying as well, but there was also some criticism that journalists were pushing too far forwards. Hashmatulla Moslih, an official with the NA Foreign Ministry in Khoja Bahauddin, about 12 miles from the front line, said "it is a tragedy for everyone, it is a tragedy for us too. But these are not traditional front lines, it is not like the First World War - this is the most dangerous frontline in the world, because it is a hidden frontline. These guys [the non-Afghan...