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...other villagers are adamant there was no firefight. They say a policeman protecting the homes of minority Sikhs discharged his rifle by accident and the soldiers, on patrol nearby, thought they were under fire. "Even if there was a militant attack, who did they kill?" asks Nadiya's father, Nazir. His wife, Misra, looks at a picture of her dead daughter and begins to cry again...
...JESSE JACKSON act as a go-between for the criminal Bank of Credit and Commerce International in its dealings with African central banks? That's what Nazir Chinoy, the former B.C.C.I. Paris chief who is a federal prisoner, told a Senate subcommittee last week, but Jackson vigorously denies the tale. Chinoy testified that B.C.C.I. paid Jackson's Paris hotel bills during a 1985 trip in which Jackson also visited several African heads of state and added that Jackson offered to help B.C.C.I. establish business relationships with them. Jackson notes that at the time most people thought B.C.C.I. was legitimate. Says...
...Washington, the reaction to the Iraqi resumption of the tanker war was thinly disguised exasperation. After the initial Iraqi air attacks, Richard Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, summoned Iraqi Ambassador Nazir Hamdoon to his office for a firm dressing down. Under Secretary of State Michael Armacost later summed up the U.S. view by saying the Iraqi action was "very regrettable, extremely unfortunate." The timing of the raids was "deplorable," he said, both because they create a new threat to U.S. warships in the gulf and because they came at a moment when Iran...
...first, led by S. Shahaid Husain, vice president of the World Bank, focuses on the problem of taking cultural differences in account when formulating development strategies, said Kamal Ahmad '87-88' who founded the ODN in 1983 with his brother, Nazir Ahmad...
Just four years after Kamal and Nazir Ahmad created the Overseas Development Network (ODN), the group has chapters at 40 colleges and more than 600 student volunteers. ODN has raised over $300,000 to sponsor, among other things, internship programs in Appalachia, India and Bangladesh...