Word: hafiz
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...gold and indigo - of the Uzbek Emperor Tamerlane, whose dominions once stretched from Baghdad to Bengal. There are 500-year-old Sanskrit scriptures inscribed on palm leaves, Korans 25 mm wide (written so the verses form the shapes of animals) and, in the margins of verses by the poet Hafiz, annotations by the Mughal Emperors Humayun and Jahangir. There are even jottings by Byron - two verses added by the English poet to his "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte." With so few visitors, director Imtiaz Ahmad will dig out his most precious pieces for you to peruse over chai and spicy chips...
...hardest moments of spreading the moderate voice of our religion," says Sheik Khaled el-Guindi, 42, a moderate imam in Cairo. "Most of the pictures we see are of Iraqi heads stepped on by American Army boots. It is no longer just an occupation, but a humiliation." Says Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, a Pakistani cleric and Member of Parliament: "The U.S. and its allies must realize that by occupation, by killing and by dishonoring Muslim women--such as in the Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq--they are sowing the seeds of hatred...
...with caves, these granite ridges rear up out of the desert and are covered in a jumble of boulders that offer perfect cover for snipers. In recent weeks, this hideout had become the base for a new enemy commander whom the U.S. is now confronting for the first time: Hafiz Abdul Rahim, a rebel chieftain and former Taliban secret-police chief who had advanced through the ranks after allegedly massacring dozens of Hazara Shi?ites in the town of Kalat...
...Washington may be starting to wonder about Musharraf, too. First came the recent embarrassing revelations that Pakistan, supposedly a close U.S. ally, was secretly helping the North Koreans procure materials to build a nuclear bomb. Then, last week a Lahore court released Hafiz Mohammed Saeed, the leader of a banned Islamic militant organization with past links to al-Qaeda, claiming he had been unlawfully detained. Army support for Musharraf may also be slipping: diplomats say MMA leader Qazi Hussain Ahmed may have met with officials of the powerful Inter-Services Intelligence agency before demanding that the President step down...
...Lahore's Shahudha mosque, where afternoon prayers have just let out and dozens of men in skullcaps are milling in the afternoon sun. As they part to make way for a phalanx of policemen who are dispersing the crowd, they grumble about the President. "He cannot survive," says Hafiz Mazhar Liblani, "and if he sells out Kashmir, he will pay the price." Liblani has trained as a militant in a Pakistani-run camp and vows that he is ready to carry the jihad to Kashmir when necessary. That issue is a snarling point for Indians who regularly accuse Pakistan...