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Though Sert’s work has been largely neglected, contemporary issues both at Harvard and abroad make this current retrospective timely. Recent attention to the physical reconstruction of Kabul and Baghdad by urban planners, as well as the ongoing row over Harvard’s development plans in Riverside neighborhood, near Peabody Terrace, are illuminated by the exhibitions...
...agents they nabbed were three men who, it emerged in interrogations, were Pakistani army officers. Authorities in Pakistan clapped the three in a military brig; an official from military intelligence called them "mavericks." But the news of their capture alongside enemy fighters underscored a persistent issue in Washington and Kabul: Whose side, exactly, is Pakistan...
...urgency in the air. It's sparked by Washington's concern that it needs better results from Islamabad at a time when a resurgent Taliban is using Pakistan as a base for strikes against U.S. and government forces in Afghanistan, threatening the stability of the U.S.-backed government in Kabul. Says Norbert Van Heyst, the outgoing commander of the NATO peacekeeping force in Kabul: "It is well known that beyond the border, the remnants of the Taliban and al-Qaeda have the chance to reorganize," including establishing training camps...
...release Taliban prisoners in Guantanamo, that it stop referring to Taliban members as terrorists and that it announce that talks with the Taliban came at Washington's request. The ex-Taliban source says the CIA refused. "But they agreed to telephone links," he added. U.S. officials in Kabul, for their part, denied having any contact with the Taliban...
...devout Muslims born in the same city. But when these new friends meet, two worlds collide: the old life of an Afghan woman, which reached a nadir under the Taliban, and a new kind of existence that's mightily struggling to be born. And while the faltering government in Kabul has made big promises to liberate Afghanistan's women, this struggle mostly occurs behind the closed doors of houses like Ghotair...