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...family while, to this day, 40% of the population earn less than a dollar a day. Political parties were banned and dissent stifled while Gayoom periodically renewed his own mandate through elections with only one name on the ballot. "There was a catalog of human rights violations," says Abbas Faiz, a South Asia researcher for Amnesty International. "Authorities could detain anyone and treat them the way they wanted. Torture was widespread." Nasheed, a fiery critic of the regime who came to prominence as a writer of subversive anti-government polemics, was repeatedly detained on grounds of sedition, according to rights...
Mindful that the worst may be yet to come, the State Bank of Pakistan is ratcheting up interest rates, though it still expects inflation "to remain high" through the rest of 2008. That won't impress vegetable vendor Faiz Mohamed, 50, who says that Pakistan's economic success in the past few years has benefited only the elite. "A particular class has earned a lot from the investment, the new [cell] phones, all that," he says, from behind his worn metal scales. But, he says, "the poor man has become poorer...
...went immediately to his neighbor's house. "There was blood everywhere, Faiz recalls. "There were dead bodies." He says six members of the Daad family had been killed - three men, two women and a young girl. Australian Defence officials say the house, in Chenartu village in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, was raided by Australian troops of the Internatonal Security Assistance Force (ISAF) because it was an "extremist Taliban compound." They said several of the people inside - including one of the women killed - were armed and that they initiated a fierce firefight. Australian commando Luke Worsley was shot dead...
...Local residents confirm that Taliban members were meeting in the house that night. Mullah Baz Mohammed, the Taliban-designated "governor" of Uruzgan, was also expected for dinner but failed to appear. "Some of the men in the house were Taliban," says district chief Malim Faiz Mohammed (no relation). "But people like the Daad family do not have the resources or backing to tell the Taliban to stay away. They have a problem from both sides: they are frightened of the ISAF and of the Taliban," who intimidate villagers into helping them and kill those who refuse...
...clear the fight against it will be long. Some ISAF commanders fear it may be 15 years before they see significant improvement, but the ISAF is committed to staying in Afghanistan only until 2010. In the meantime, more civilians are sure to be caught in crossfire. In Chenartu, Faiz Mohammed reflects on his own experience. Afghanistan has been in turmoil for decades, but he says, "There has never been so much pain brought to this village...