Word: khans
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...Laden and his chief lieutenant, Ayman al-Zawahiri, are believed to be operating. Announcements of victories against al-Qaeda highlight the primary reason the Bush Administration has been inclined to avoid confronting Musharraf over concerns ranging from democracy in Pakistan to the fact that its top nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, was revealed in 2004 to have been running a global supermarket for rogue states seeking nuclear weapons...
...later said that Iran might be the only nation in the world that would use a nuclear bomb if it acquired one, and that the former chief Pakistani nuclear scientist, A.Q. Khan, who aided nuclear weapons programs in Iran, North Korea, and Libya, deserved a “Nobel War Prize” and is the “most evil, dangerous person on the face of the Earth today...
...expect, none of this comes cheap. Standard room rates start at $250 a night. But the Aga Khan Foundation for Economic Development, the Serena's main backer, is betting that guests will happily pay a premium for an oasis of luxury amid the rubble. Says spokesman Aly Mawji: "Mainstream tourism is still years away but we hope the hotel will encourage some more adventurous travelers." Or perhaps that should be less adventurous. After all, a holiday in Kabul has never been so delightfully and unexpectedly comfortable...
...beauty salon. There's an international buffet restaurant, the Café Zarnegar, and, incongruously, an Asian specialty restaurant, the Silk Route, which offers Malaysian, Singaporean, Indonesian and Thai cuisine. As you'd expect, none of this comes cheap. Standard room rates start at $250 a night. But the Agha Khan Foundation for Economic Development, the Serena's main backer, is betting that guests will happily pay a premium for an oasis of luxury amid the rubble. Says spokesman Aly Mawji: "Mainstream tourism is still years away but we hope the hotel will encourage some more adventurous travelers." Or perhaps that...
...Khan groped his way down to the hospital. It was destroyed, hammered into countless pieces by the temblor. Meanwhile, thousands were converging in the street, carrying and dragging people with terrible injuries, searching for a hospital that had ceased to exist. Using about $200,000 of his own cash, Khan says, he bought all the medicine and bandages he could find, grabbed anyone who had first-aid training and set up a tent hospital to tend to the hordes of wounded staggering in. For the worst injured, he arranged a makeshift ambulance service to ferry them over the mountains...