Word: peshawar
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...support, and they are openly complaining that American tactics have been ineffective. This disillusionment and frustration with the U.S. spells danger. The Taliban may be deeply unpopular with many Afghans, but it is local. Says Nancy Dupree, a veteran observer of the country, now based with relief agencies in Peshawar: "It's the first thing you learn about the Afghans. They will fight among themselves until kingdom come, but as soon as an outside force comes in, they will come together." Opposition leaders now sound much more nationalistic and less friendly to Americans than they were a week...
...little to head off a looming humanitarian disaster. Afghanistan is one of the poorest, most war-racked and drought-ridden places on earth. So far, humanitarian drops of food by U.S. planes have had little impact on the food shortage. A man from Nangarhar province who arrived in Peshawar last week told doctors that some people in his village were afraid to open the food parcels; during the Soviet war, many Afghans were maimed by toys and packets of cigarettes dropped from planes--and booby-trapped with explosives. Other refugees have been snapping up the rations, but even if everyone...
...bunkers have sprouted around embassies and government buildings in the capital of Islamabad. Heavily armed riot police ringed the city of Quetta near the Afghan border, where angry protests all last week left five people dead. Soldiers huddled behind sandbags and armored-personnel carriers patrolled the streets in restive Peshawar while young men shouted for jihad. Militants roamed through the port city of Karachi, burning, looting and clashing with police as they chanted, "Osama, nuclear power of the Muslim world!" As Muslim sympathizers of Osama bin Laden and the Taliban whipped up fury in the streets, Musharraf's show...
...place to hide from bombs anyway." That's why some got out of town; October is the time of the grape and melon harvest in Afghanistan, so trucks laden with fruit lumbered for 24 hours down the road from Kabul to the markets in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar. In Jalalabad, just up the Khyber Pass from Peshawar, 60% of the population is thought to have fled to the relative safety of mountain villages or across the border into Pakistan. By the weekend there were reports that civilians?how many was a matter of wild dispute?had keen killed...
...bombing began on October 7. But, he said, his mother, sisters and brothers felt unsafe even in rural Kama. So the family eventually decided to head for Pakistan. A tough journey through mountainous terrain had enabled them to illegally enter Pakistan, and set up a new home in Peshawar...