Word: mohammad
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...will be up to the Afghans to find a new balance of genders in their society. Progress is likely to be slow, particularly outside the educated elites of Kabul. Even there it will be subject to the complex forces of coercion, family pressure and tradition. Mohammad Halim, who runs one of Kabul's best-known burka shops, says he has no plans to offer a wider variety of clothing. "It will only be in Kabul where women will take off their burkas. Elsewhere women will continue wearing them. This is a very old custom in Afghanistan." That very day, says...
...group also points to its police academy in the Panjshir Valley as proof that it is determined to prevent a repeat of the lawlessness that characterized Kabul before the Taliban took control. "There is no question of any repetition of the events that took place in Kabul before," promises Mohammad Da'oud Askaria, the director of the academy. Northern Alliance representatives have also been cozying up to former King Mohammed Zahir Shah, who is favored by the U.S. to lead a broad-based post-Taliban administration...
...case, moderate doesn't mean enlightened--or powerful. For the most part, all Taliban members still support the idea of a pure Islamic state, though some are willing to allow slightly fewer restrictions on women's education and travel, as well as on the treatment of minorities. Mullah Mohammad Hasan Rahmani, the soft-spoken, one-legged Governor of Kandahar, and military commander Ibrahim Baloch signal their brand of open-mindedness by giving TV interviews or meeting with female journalists...
...unchanged, largely because so many people have fled. But residents are frightened and angry, and much of their scorn is reserved for the Taliban and for its Arab allies in Afghanistan, former mujahedin who have come to fight a jihad. "We have become hostages of the Arabs," says Nek Mohammad, a driver. Several of the Kandaharis I spoke to claim there are thousands of Arabs in the country. I was told that a number of Arabs traveled to Kabul this past week to implore Afghans to join the fight. "We are Arabs," they said. "We have no place...
...parts of Afghanistan since the current conflict began. Their primary purpose in allowing the two-day visit was to the show to the world the civilian casualties caused by the U.S. air strikes. But Governor Mullah Abdul Kabir, considered number three in the Taliban hierarchy after supreme leader Mullah Mohammad Omar and Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, agreed to the reporters' request to visit the Jalalabad airport, a frequent target of U.S. fighter planes and Tomahawk cruise missiles. His decision was surprising because the airport is also a military airbase...