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...insist that under Mohammed's Shari'a regulations, the Taliban's prohibition on female education will be lifted. But many of the teachers who were threatened have fled the area and are too fearful to return anytime soon. "The Taliban have threatened us not to come back," says Zunaiba Hayat, a 35-year-old middle-school teacher who moved to Islamabad after her school was ransacked by the militants...
...Iraq came from Syria. However, the figures have dropped significantly, according to U.S. officials. In July, an estimated 20 fighters per month were reported to be entering Iraq, an 80% drop compared with a year earlier. In September, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat that the number of foreign fighters crossing from Syria into Iraq was down. She ascribed the reduction to the efforts of coalition forces and the Iraqis rather than a change of policy by Syria...
Diagnostics-For-All hired its CEO in June and is currently applying for funding, according to Hayat Sindi, another member of the team and co-founder...
...Health officials are clear in their answers. Aside from lack of money and political will, they also face entrenched traditions and fatalistic attitudes to maternal mortality, especially in very poor communities. "People think that dying in childbirth is not preventable," says Nadira Hayat, Afghanistan's Deputy Minister of Health. "They...
...home in Islamabad, some 10 miles away, was able to receive members of the national assembly. "I'm going in," shouted senator Enver Baig, as he strode purposefully toward the assembled police. They melted away as he passed, then reformed their blockade. Other politicians were not so lucky. Nahid Hayat, a party worker hoping to run for office, stood in front of the police to address the crowd. Before she had a chance to speak, she was bundled into a waiting police car. "I have been given no reason to be arrested," she screamed, as the police slammed the door...