Word: khans
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Twenty people gathered last night to discuss an unusual topic on the Harvard campus: sex workers on film. Ummni Khan, a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School, led a clip screening and discussion on the roles and portrayals of sex workers in contemporary film at the Harvard College Women’s Center last night. Khan’s chosen clips—from mainstream films such as “9 1/2 Weeks,” “Pretty Woman,” “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo,” “Monster...
...Afghanistan, both Taliban sources and Afghan police confirmed that dozens of passengers aboard a bus in Kandahar had been killed. Six of the recovered bodies had been beheaded. While the Taliban has claimed responsibility for the deaths of 27 passengers, contending that they were Afghan soldiers, police chief Matiullah Khan Qaneh maintained that the Taliban had killed some 40 civilians who were en route to Iran in search of work. On Oct. 20, aid worker Gayle Williams, who had British and South African citizenship, was shot dead in Kabul by two gunmen on a motorbike as she walked to work...
...Both sides have hailed as historic the opening of trade across the Line of Control. "It is a great day," says Sardar Attique Khan, prime minister of the Pakistan-controlled Azad (or "Free") Kashmir. "We have always demanded that both sides be allowed to interact with each other. We hope that this will allow for that to continue to happen...
...burgeoning Sino-Pakistani alliance may check what many in Islamabad and Beijing fear to be a solidifying Indo-U.S. consensus in the region. Though no official statement from either government was made, Pakistan's ambassador to Beijing, Masood Khan, told The Nation, a Pakistani daily, that obtaining nuclear reactors and fuel for civilian nuclear technology would be the "main item" in talks with Beijing this week. Apart from being Pakistan's main conventional arms supplier, China has played an integral part in building Pakistan's nuclear weapons industry. In turn, Islamabad allowed the Chinese to build a deep...
...Australian troops to quit the area, but he does not believe President Karzai has the power to order them out. In a meeting in Kabul, he says, Karzai offered to continue paying his father's salary every month. The Australian government says it is negotiating to pay compensation to Khan's family. ADF head Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston said, "We deeply regret [Khan's] death. We are working very closely with [Khan's] tribe to ensure that this has no far-reaching negative effects on our operations in the province of Oruzgan...