Word: pathans
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...when a suicide bomber at Islamabad’s Marriott hotel blew himself up, claiming the lives of 53 people, including two Americans and the Czech ambassador. The crying child in Mumbai who had lost his parents wrenched my heart with pain, as did the image of the Pathan child whose family was instantly killed by an American drone attack in northwestern Pakistan. The parallels were all too stark and obvious, and my heart bled as it had at each past instance of terrorism, be it in Islamabad, Mumbai, or Baghdad...
...There had been uncertainty about whether the event would even take place on Friday, Hankins said. Organizers did not receive permission from the city until a nine-part inspection of the center was completed Thursday afternoon. As congregants streamed into the mosque Friday night, a local volunteer named Adnan Pathan ambled through the crowd collecting alms. With the donation box under his arm, Pathan explained the significance of the center’s opening to local Muslims. “This mosque will be a beacon of hope for the Muslim community,” he said...
...violence was not restricted to supporters of the rival political groups, however. Eyewitness reports from the Malir district of Karachi suggested that MQM militants had rounded up people simply on the grounds that they looked by Pathan or Punjabi, and tried to execute them...
...begged and pleaded them that I am not an opposition worker; I am a student," says Aadil Badshah, a 20-year-old Pathan studying engineering, who was shot in the legs and hands. "They did not listen to me. They were laughing at us and four others. One of them was a 50-year-old laborer. First they beat us, took us inside a street, put us to stand in a line and then fired on us. And then left. Two died on the spot and me and two others survived...
...control it. BJP insiders admit that without any significant achievements for Modi to point to, either in Gujarat or across the country, his one hope lies in terrifying and cajoling Hindus into voting for the party that vows to jealously protect them, and them alone. Says childhood friend Jasud Pathan, a Muslim and a BJP organizer: "His job is to save the BJP, to save the government. And the only way to do that is to say these things about Muslims...