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...Pearl's murder has never quite been solved. Since the Wall Street Journal reporter was abducted and executed in Karachi in January 2002, four men with ties to radical Islamist groups have been convicted of the crime by a Pakistani court. The suspected ringleader, a British citizen named Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, has been sentenced to death, while the other three are serving 25-year terms. But several other alleged accomplices remain at large, and the man who may have slashed Pearl's throat - Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a top Qaeda operative who recently revealed to U.S. authorities fresh details about...
...summer afternoon in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, hundreds of young Muslim students sleep in the shadow of a mosque's arches, enduring the hard stone floor and swarming clouds of flies. Suddenly the call to prayer resounds through a loudspeaker. The boys spring up to wash in ritual preparation. Starting as young as 8, these boys spend six hours a day memorizing the Koran, with breaks only for rest and prayer. The students get no lessons in math, geography, history or computers. Allah's will as recorded in the holy Koran, the teachers say, is all they need...
...Islamist madrasahs so long as Pakistan remains as poor and illiterate as it is. Parents know that at least the madrasahs will give their children a free meal. "It's poverty and hunger that drive these students to the madrasahs," says Aziz Ahmed Faruqi, who teaches in a Karachi seminary. "If their stomachs weren't empty, they wouldn't come." --By Tim McGirk/Karachi. With reporting by Ghulam Hasnain...
...Chechen rebellion. The Palestinians are fighting to reclaim their homeland. The Chechens call their struggle a "war of liberation." They say Chechnya never voluntarily joined Russia and was conquered only by military force. For its part, the Russian government calls the war an antiterrorist operation. Ashhad Ikram Alam Karachi...
...Real Karachi I'm very unhappy at TIME'S inaccurate portrayal of Karachi, the city where I was born and bred [June 16]. I feel it has been purposely exaggerated to create a wrong impression of the city and of the Muslim world. Karachi does have law-and-order problems, but not to this extent. So far, during the first 17 years of my life, all spent in Karachi, I have never?and, I am sure, never will?witness what you describe. Social work is taking place in Karachi, which is now the main seaport, industrial and financial...