Word: northerner
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...stroke of good fortune. Our intelligence had under surveillance a few religious types [in Singapore]. One of them left for Karachi and went on to Afghanistan, soon after the country was bombed by the Americans [in late 2001]. He was captured by the [anti-Taliban] Northern Alliance. He was of Pakistani descent. So we found that this wasn't just a religious study group. If that fella had not gone off to Karachi to fight with the Taliban, we would have been hit with seven truck bombs. The nitrates were sitting [across the causeway] in [the Malaysian state of] Johore...
...same time that this Pakistani, born and bred in Singapore and English-speaking, was caught by the Northern Alliance, another Pakistani born and bred in Bradford, U.K., was caught in Iraq and sent to Guant?namo Bay. I watched his father on the BBC, and thought to myself: two Pakistani families left Pakistan, one for Bradford, the other for Singapore, produced children, brought up in two totally different environments, quite distant from the Islam of Pakistan, and yet they both end up fighting in Afghanistan. This Islamist pull is more powerful than that of communism. The communists never fully trusted...
...Buchanan presided over the failed defense of the Ashes during the northern summer, when England beat Australia at cricket for the first time since 1986-87. You can't blame him for everything that went wrong, but you can blame him for some of it. Buchanan could out-analyze Hercule Poirot. But in complacent teams it's the basics that slip first, and Australia's fielding, running between the wickets, and discipline went to seed. Buchanan either didn't notice or couldn't arrest the slide. It was hard to tell which, because his arguments about the merits of Australia...
...introduced such innovations as the use of a Gross National Happiness index to measure Bhutan's wealth, is now urging his people to get rid of him. "Monarchy is not the best form of government," he said last month at a stop on his anti-royalty campaign in the northern town of Haa. "It has many flaws...
After the earthquake that rocked Northern Pakistan, Farid, whose father’s family is from a village near the earthquake’s epicenter, spearheaded a coalition of student groups that planned relief events such as the Earthquake Banquet. “I realized it was more important than writing my thesis and worrying about schoolwork.” So instead, Farid fretted over catering, speakers, and venues...