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...prayed that Allah may give him 200 years to live." HAYATULLAH KHAN Taliban spokesperson, speaking by satellite phone from an undisclosed location, on celebrations marking the 50th birthday of Osama bin Laden on March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 3/15/2007 | See Source »

...four months ago. Although his initial deposit of $100 in crumpled Afghani notes may seem paltry, because of customers like him Azizi is increasing its deposit base faster than any other bank in the country. "You have business opportunities here in Afghanistan like nowhere else in the world," says Hayatullah Dayani, the bank's chief of business development...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Capitalism Comes to Afghanistan | 12/4/2006 | See Source »

...fifteen Kandahari mujahedin (bodyguards for the former king) cocked their weapons and took aim at the Special Forces. The other Afghan government troops followed. "It was one of those times when you realize a minute is actually sixty seconds, and that can be an awfully long time," Hayatullah Diani, a royalist official, told TIME. "I thought they were going to start killing each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kabul: Tense Moments on the Palace Grounds | 10/7/2002 | See Source »

...smoke from Kabul's ancient brass saluting cannon died away than Afghans were telling each other hot news. Servants searching the hastily deserted palace of "Usurper" Habibullah had come upon a locked closet. Inside the closet were six smouldering corpses. Three were recognizable: Abdul Majif and Hayatullah, brother and half-brother of exiled Amanullah, and Mohammed Osman, one-time governor of Kandahar, whose great Afghan influence once won him the title of "King-maker." All three, held as hostages, had been murdered as the armies of Nadir approached Kabul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFGHANISTAN: Cannons after Prayer | 10/28/1929 | See Source »

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