Word: peshawar
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...known to Pakistani intelligence. A reedy young man from the village of Rawalakot in the Himalayan foothills near the Indian border, he fought alongside the Taliban against the Americans in Afghanistan. Wounded in the fall of Kabul, he was allowed to return home to Pakistan. On arrival in Peshawar, he was interrogated by Pakistani intelligence services and dismissed as harmless in April 2002. Like many Muslim extremists, Jamil, according to his relatives in Rawalakot, viewed Musharraf as too pro-Western. Militants complain that Musharraf betrayed the Taliban and, given his peace overtures to India in early January, they now accuse...
...there's a confusing range of opinion about Musharraf. A Taliban-inspired political grouping called Muttahidda Majlis-e-Amals (MMA), which formed in two Pakistani states after America's war in Afghanistan, condemns him for his lack of Islamic fervor. (The MMA-affiliated government of the northern city of Peshawar has prohibited mannequins from being displayed in shop windows and also disapproves of male doctors treating female patients.) But it was the MMA that gave Musharraf support in the parliamentary maneuvers that last week recognized him as an elected President. Middle-class Pakistanis wonder if he's become yet another...
...outwit spies in the sky. The U.S. has apparently been close several times to killing the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, wanted for sponsoring attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan allies. But last week he sent a gloating videotape to a news station in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, jauntily recounting the near misses by U.S. troops tracking him. On one occasion, he says, he survived by climbing up a mountain barely 200 yards from where U.S. soldiers were searching a house. "We were in a neighboring house and could hear the voices of the Americans," he said...
...outwit spies in the sky. The U.S. has apparently been close several times to killing the notorious warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, wanted for sponsoring attacks on foreign troops and their Afghan allies. But last week he sent a gloating videotape to a news station in the Pakistani border city of Peshawar, jauntily recounting the near misses by U.S. troops tracking him. On one occasion, he says, he survived by climbing up a mountain 180 meters from where U.S. soldiers were searching a house. "We were in a neighboring house and could hear the voices of the Americans," he said, "but they...
...While rallying old soldiers, the Taliban are also recruiting new members, targeting disgruntled young Afghans in refugee camps in Chaman, Quetta, Peshawar and Karachi. The appeals play on pride and alienation, charging that the Americans are denigrating Islam and Pashtuns. "You are seeing the picture of a dirty Jewish infidel searching the body of a Muslim woman," reads a flyer found in Chaman, which shows a Western soldier frisking a burqa-clad female. "If a Muslim does not display his feelings by defending his faith and honor, then he is not a Muslim nor an Afghan...