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...fear that began in a newsroom in Florida and spread to Capitol Hill, New York City and New Jersey has now jumped to far-off Karachi, the commercial capital of Pakistan. Two weeks ago, in the newsroom of Pakistan's largest daily newspaper, the 1-million-circulation Jang, a 32-year-old business reporter ripped open a hand-delivered envelope he assumed to be a press release. Then he panicked. "There is powder," he cried, recoiling and flinging the letter onto his desk. "It has powder!" The paper's management sent the letter for tests at Karachi's respected...
...hardly alone?even in his own city. According to government officials, three other envelopes delivered in Karachi in the past two weeks have tested positive for anthrax spores. The other two recipients were an unnamed business and the Habib Bank A.G. Zurich. In Lahore, meanwhile, the American consulate received an envelope that tested positive. Government officials point out there are no facilities capable of producing high-grade anthrax in Pakistan, which suggests a foreign origin. At Karachi's main international post office, postal workers have been provided with gloves, though no other precautions have been taken...
...eager to fight alongside the Taliban. It's possible that the initial tests on the four envelopes will prove faulty, which has happened with anthrax scares in the U.S. and elsewhere: hoax letters have been found in Pakistan in the past few weeks. Nonetheless, says Sardar Abdul Majeed Dasti, Karachi's Superintendent of Police, "This is definitely terrorism. It is aimed to create panic." The word jang does, in fact, mean war, but no one expected the newsroom to become a new front line...
...familiar Muslim apologists insist are unrepresentative of mainstream Islam—there is a dearth of institutional voices condemning the fallacies of fanaticism. And yet such condemnations are precisely what is needed. The principled Muslim leaders of the West can do nothing to sway public opinion in Kabul or Karachi, Khartoum or Cairo. Absent a coordinated, concerted and continuous effort on the part of the Middle East’s clerics and political leaders to explicitly condemn terrorism in all its forms as fundamentally incompatible with the teachings of the Prophet, terrorists will continue to rise from Middle Eastern soil...
...Pakistan, heroes are in short supply. But ask any Pakistani whom they admire most, and they'll all mention the name of a former shopkeeper, a poor man from Karachi named Abdul Sattar Edhi. Karachi is a violent town; there are murders most every night. Gang wars, vendettas, crimes over women or money. And nobody collected the bodies. Then, a few years back, Edhi started going around the city at night with a cart, gathering up the bodies as though they were his own kin, washing them and giving then a decent Muslim burial. He still does that...