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...monthly earnings "on the other side." In migrants' countries of origin, escalating desires - for things like better education and bigger homes - help drive the remittances. Ironically, economists calculate that the poorer the migrants are, the more money they dispatch. "There is enormous social pressure to send money home," says Khalid Koser, a geography professor at University College London, who in October co-authored a report for the Global Commission on International Migration in Geneva, which researches governments' immigration policies. Koser found that many migrants scrape by in first-world cities, depriving themselves of basic comforts in order to "keep people...
...Former rock musician Shane Kent is suspected of training with LeT, as are Khalid Cheikho and his nephew Mustafa Cheikho. Abdul Rhakid Hasan allegedly provided lodging for LeT-trained terror suspect Frenchman Willie Brigitte, who was deported from Australia...
...conservative publication is also feeling outside pressure to use discretion. HIS President Khalid M. Yasin ’07, who arranged the meeting with Harvard deans about ethics in Harvard journalism, is quick to remind that negative verbal jabs against Muslims can easily transform into physical violence. After 9/11, an Islamic graduate student at Harvard Divinity School was physically abused at the Harvard T stop because she was wearing hijab, The Crimson reported...
...abducted and shipped to his native Pakistan for interrogation: the rationale is that in Pakistan the Geneva Convention’s prohibitions on torture are inapplicable, and Hasan can be subjected to coercive violence if need be. Hasan is tortured, repeatedly. He finds his only solace in friendship to Khalid (Charles Daniel Sandoval), a fellow detainee, who offers him food, water, and, most significantly, membership in a terrorist cell. Hasan initially refuses, but when the film cuts three years into the future Hasan and Khalid are in the final stages of planning for a multi-phase bombing in New York...
...adultery. Later that year, Anwar found himself the subject of a police investigation, which led to his sacking and six years in prison for corruption (a sodomy conviction was overturned last year). Last week a court awarded Anwar $1.2 million in libel damages against the book's author, Khalid Jafri, leading a jubilant Anwar to declare that he has been "completely vindicated." Numbers 18,000 Number of hand-pulled rickshaws in Calcutta to be phased out by the end of the year, after more than a century in use, by legislators who have called this mode of transport a "human...