Word: chaman
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...comes from a family of scientists. Father Chaman has a doctorate in engineering, and won a Presidential award for his work in getting water to African villages. Kashkari's mother, Sheila, is a retired pathologist, and his sister Meera, specializes in infectious diseases...
...When he does anything, if you ask him to make an electric car or ask him to plan an outing to Niagara Falls, he is so meticulous."-Chaman Kashkari, father, USA Today, October...
...police the region, pointing out that 80,000 troops line the border, some 800 of whom have died in skirmishes with militants from both sides. Pakistan is also fencing heavily trafficked areas, and has installed a biometric identification system at the main western border crossing of Chaman. "We are doing our utmost to stop the cross-border activity," she says. "But we expect matching steps from the other side as well. What are the Afghans doing to combat this problem...
...smugglers' crossroads in southeastern Afghanistan, the Taliban have launched four major ambushes from Pakistani hideouts against Afghan government outposts over the past nine months, killing dozens. Abdul Raziq, the pro-U.S. garrison commander in Spin Boldak, says he has received intelligence from tribal allies in border towns like Chaman that the Taliban are gearing up for a major guerrilla campaign. "They are coming," he says. "It's only a matter of time...
...launched a holy war of its own. Soon enough the snows will come and the summer's fighting will die down. But if the U.S. and its ally Pakistan do not crush the Taliban soon, next year promises more bloodshed. "We are waiting," says Qari Rehman, a Talib in Chaman. "You will see. The situation will get worse." --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Ghulam Hasnain/Chaman and Quetta, Tim McGirk/Kabul, Michael Ware/Kandahar and Rahimullah Yusufzai/Peshawar