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...Born in Faridkot, a village of less than 3,000 in western Pakistan. One of five children - and the middle child - Qasab, in a videotape made during interrogations the night of his arrest, described how he and his family often couldn't afford enough to eat with the money his father made selling food from a cart...
...Left Faridkot in 2005 to follow in his older brother's footsteps as a laborer; Qasab found work in Lahore and later worked as a decorator in Rawalpindi. Disappointed with his meager earnings, he conspired with a friend to commit robberies. In 2007 he came into contact with the LeT and joined their ranks, hoping to develop military skills. (See pictures of a jihadist's journey...
Cauldron of Terror Your cover story on the making of terror suspect Ajmal Qasab, a village boy from Faridkot in Pakistan, paints a very grim picture of Pakistan's plight [March 16]. Scarcity of jobs for the youth and the flourishing of radical education facilities there, funded by Islamist elements from other countries, promise instability for the government. With a corrupted military and little consensus among Pakistan's politicians, one can only see a bleak future for its people. Premdayal Gupta, Indore, India...
Back to the Village Being beaten senseless by the police was not the exit Qasab had trained for. Instead of standing out from the thousands of other young men from villages like Faridkot, he was treated like a common criminal. The standoff between India and Pakistan, meanwhile, has escalated beyond him. The Indian government's dossier of evidence builds on Qasab's statement with details of the GPS coordinates and satellite-phone data retrieved from the scene of the attacks. But it does so not to strengthen the Mumbai Crime Branch's case against Qasab but to prove...
...places he came from and passed through and the sights, sounds and messages that he experienced, he is part of a much bigger tale, a violent drama that has rumbled over much of the subcontinent. The role has done him no good. Qasab may have escaped Faridkot and Rawalpindi. But he's no closer to the other side of the fence than when he started...