Word: peshawar
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...Qaeda's network, while badly degraded, hasn't folded. The biggest prize, Osama bin Laden, has remained maddeningly out of reach since the hunt for him began one year ago; U.S. commanders believe he is probably alive and holed up in Pakistan, perhaps in the northwest city of Peshawar. Afghan officials told Time that in November the U.S. allowed Pakistan to airlift hundreds of fighters, including some senior Taliban officials, out of the contested northern city of Kunduz. The task of stabilizing Afghanistan--let alone rebuilding it--has been hampered by lingering rivalries and suspicions. Just last week, a misunderstanding...
...Here in the R. Premadasa Stadium, in front of 25,000 people, Pakistan is being taught a lesson in how to play one-day cricket by the region's afterthought: Sri Lanka. Rashud, a 35-year-old from the Pakistani city of Peshawar, is unperturbed. Cricket, it seems, has a way of breaking down barriers and appealing to fans' more civilized instincts. "Winning or losing does not matter," he says. "Once cricket is in the blood, it's there for life and there is no way you can get it out of your system...
...through the badlands along the Afghan border with four heavily armed al-Qaeda members beside him, Niazi may have sensed he was riding to his death. Niazi had spent weeks befriending Uzbek al-Qaeda fighters, posing as a smuggler who could take them safely into the frontier city of Peshawar. Now he had lured the Uzbeks into the trap. He would drive them into an ambush in which Pakistani police would capture al-Qaeda fighters alive. From there they would be flown away from the nearby Kohat army base to be interrogated by American spooks...
...Qaeda inside Afghanistan, thousands of militants have slipped across the border since last winter. Officials estimate that, altogether, more than 3,500 al-Qaeda operatives and their Pakistani comrades are hunkered down in the tribal belt along the Afghan border and in the sprawling cities of Karachi and Peshawar, sheltered by homegrown extremists. Since December, Pakistani authorities working with U.S. intelligence agents have caught more than 380 suspected al-Qaeda members. In Peshawar last week, U.S. and Pakistani officials detained seven suspected terrorists but failed to snatch two senior al-Qaeda aides who were the main targets of the raids...
President Pervez Musharraf says that he has no plans to do away with the Hudood laws. Tampering with them would enrage the religious conservatives. But two weeks ago, after Musharraf promised the death sentence would not be carried out, a Peshawar court temporarily suspended Zafran Bibi's death sentence and is considering her appeal. For human-rights activists, the reprieve doesn't go far enough. "As long as such laws are on the books, people will suffer," says Afrasiab Khattak, chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. --By Hannah Bloch