Word: holidaying
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That was a common choice. "Robbing houses is easier than finding a job in 'Pindi," says Imran Asghar, a crime reporter for the English-language Daily Times. But to rob a house, Qasab needed weapons. So on Dec. 19, 2007, an important Muslim holiday, he set out for Raja Bazaar, a congested boulevard crammed with gun shops and decorated with hand-painted billboards portraying men hoisting AK-47s. Seeking guns in Raja Bazaar was an amateur move (even in 'Pindi, without a license, you won't get a gun from a shop), but it led Qasab to a LeT stall...
...they were paid in their former jobs and are often overqualified for most new positions they might find. Investment bankers actually do look for work as retail store clerks if they need the money enough. Unfortunately, no company in the retail industry will hire a soul until the next holiday season...
...it’s fine—”“And I know you prolly don’t want to talk on it, but I just was wantin’ to tell you to enjoy such a pretty holiday.” Was peace nowhere to be found! “I wish I’da learned that real soon after Miss Pam and my boys went away.” He still couldn’t accept they’d been blown away? His ignorance flew all over me, and I was ready...
...fetched as it might first sound. A friend in Karachi - educated, a staunch feminist and usually disparaging of all things religious - invokes a popular ditty every time the game is brought up: "I don't like cricket; I love it," she chants (after the 1978 10cc number "Dreadlock Holiday"). When I interviewed one of the founding members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the militant group suspected of orchestrating November's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the ice was broken with a discussion of a cricket match. And when I visited a conservative seminary campus in Muridke, near Lahore, I was greeted with...
...risking your life for a vacation?" a close friend said with a gasp, aghast when I told her I planned to spend my postelection holiday in Cartagena, Colombia. In fact, few of my friends seemed to think it was a good idea: I couldn't persuade any of them to share my rental house in the city's walled Old Town. If they had heard of Cartagena at all, it was only as the backdrop of the classic 1980s romantic caper Romancing the Stone, a place of corrupt juntas and bodice-ripper-reading drug dealers - a parody turned deadly serious...