Word: khans
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...want to spread awareness of Islam on campus. Let people see that we are not what all of the stereotypes of Muslims would say that we are,” said Omar A. Khan ’06, the treasurer of Harvard Islamic Society, which is sponsoring this week’s events...
...Saeed Khan, director and senior fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, spoke for an hour Saturday about using Islamic scripture to resolve complicated issues surrounding stem cell research and genomic therapy. He discussed how the Fiqh Council, an Islamic advisory body which issues interpretations of the law, has provided guidelines on controversial topics such as the use of fetal stem cells for research purposes...
Their goal, Afghan military officials say, is to capture small districts in Afghanistan's lawless hinterlands from which they can harass the U.S. and its allies. "They haven't yet secured bases in the cities to begin operations," says General Khan Mohammed, a corps commander in Kandahar. "But in the rural areas they are back...
...plant?s construction is facing some tough questions in the wake of President Bush's recent call for strict nuclear non-proliferation safeguards, and new revelations from A. Q. Khan, a Pakistani atomic scientist who has admitted passing nuclear design secrets on to Iran, North Korea and Libya. Khan obtained those design secrets, allegedly based on URENCO drawings, after being employed in the 1970's by a subsidiary of a Dutch company that worked closely with URENCO...
...evidence against Khan was undeniable. A U.S. undercover agent had penetrated the hub of Khan's operations in Dubai and begun to map out an intricate smuggling web that stretched into Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia as well as Istanbul, Turkey; Casablanca, Morocco; and several cities in Germany and Central Asia, a Pakistani official familiar with the investigation told TIME. So why was Khan pardoned? Government officials say Khan won clemency in return for full cooperation in the investigation of his network. But diplomats and Khan's friends claim he had threatened to name several top military officers close to Musharraf...