Word: pashtu
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...villagers found the man's body off the road, in the pines. He had been tortured; his trousers were stripped off, and a handwritten note was taped to his groin. "Don't be angry or shocked," the note read in Pashtu. "He was an American...
...Says a counterterrorism official: "Where are you going to find a person loyal to the U.S. who's willing to eat dung beetles and sleep on the ground in a cave for two or three years? You don't find people willing to do that who also speak fluent Pashtu or Arabic...
...economic and political might (or the pop-cultural blast of its images) and cruelly ignoring the human reality that is the true America; and, later on, Washington responding through a President who had seldom been abroad, and a CIA that by some accounts did not have a single Pashtu speaker in Afghanistan. Caught in the middle, as ever, were those ordinary, open-minded souls who might have harbored subtler and more enlightened thoughts about what Islam means, and America...
...Pajero jeep with four men and three burka-clad women was stopped at a checkpoint in Chapri, a village with an ancient stone arch that serves as a gateway to the Pakistani tribal region. Two tribal militiamen questioned one of the passengers and was surprised that he spoke no Pashtu. He was a Yemenite. All the passengers were ordered out of the car, and the militiamen noticed that the women in the burkas were very tall; one of them wore men's sandals. They turned out to be African men, two Sudanese and a Mauritanian. Their Pakistani driver was from...
...Pajero jeep with four men and three burka-clad women was stopped at a checkpoint in Chapri, a village with an ancient stone arch that serves as a gateway to the Pakistani tribal region. Two tribal militiamen questioned one of the passengers and was surprised that he spoke no Pashtu. He was a Yemenite. All the passengers were ordered out of the car, and the militiamen noticed that the women in the burkas were very tall; one of them wore men's sandals. They turned out to be African men, two Sudanese and a Mauritanian. Their Pakistani driver was from...