Word: khans
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...Skeptics point out that Pakistan has a habit of announcing dramatic antiterror moves to coincide with high-level meetings with American officials. At the time of the raid, President Pervez Musharraf had just returned from the U.N. in New York City; Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali was meeting with President Bush in Washington; and Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, who earlier had questioned whether Musharraf had the support of the entire Pakistani military, was preparing a trip to Islamabad...
...cranked up the amperage. Bush is "gutting" clean-air protection, Senator James Jeffords pronounced. Environmental lobbyists asserted that air pollution is rising at runaway levels. Things are so far gone, asserted Senator and presidential candidate Joe Lieberman, that Bush has "the worst environmental record in history." Worse than Genghis Khan...
...says Abu Yahya, 28, a British-born veteran of training camps in Afghanistan and one of the leaders of this Islamist group, "the men are magnificent." He professes equal admiration for two others, both acquaintances: Omar Khan Sharif, one of the two British suicide bombers who blew up a crowded Tel Aviv bar last April, and Omar Saeed Sheik, the British citizen accused of murdering journalist Daniel Pearl...
...about thousands of Iraqi children, but they care if I survive." In The Bookseller of Kabul, Seierstad's account of staying with a family in Afghanistan in the months after the Taliban's fall, she accomplishes vividly in print what comes so easily on screen. Her portrait of Sultan Khan, the title subject, and the dozen or so family members who live in his home, is a compassionate and illuminating portrait of one family that makes readers care deeply about their fate. Though hardly typical - as the most successful bookseller in a largely illiterate country, Khan is well-educated...
...Charged. Zardad Faryadi Sarwar, also known as Zardad Khan, 40, a former Afghan military commander now living in England; with torture and kidnapping offenses alleged to have occurred on a road between Pakistan and Kabul during the early 1990s; in London. Zardad was charged under legislation that allows British courts to prosecute offenses committed abroad...