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Khalid Mohammed Zai, 22, was a member of an Islamic paramilitary unit, based in Kulty Chawni in Pakistan's Punjab province. He says his unit was under the control of the ISI, and his mission, as it was explained to him and 1,000 other Pakistani fighters he says entered Afghanistan during the past two months, was to "go as a fighter and rise to a high position of influence." He was transported across the border by Pakistani military vehicles and, once in Kabul, received orders and money from the senior Pakistani officer in Kabul, a man named Naser...
Among other groups, a dozen dancers from the South Asian Dance Association will perform the bhangra, a traditional dance from the Indian state of Punjab...
...also referred to post-1979 Islamic Iran and Sikhism in the Indian state of Punjab as instances where "religion and politics, though cognitively separate, are functionally intertwined...
Sikh separatists claimed responsibility today for a car bomb that killed 16 people in northern India, including Punjab chief minister Beant Singh, outside government headquarters. But New Delhi bureau chief Dick Thompson reports that that Punjabi Sikhs are so disgusted by the violence that the incident promises to splinter the minority drive for independence. "The last few years have witnessed a relative peace here and some remarkable agricultural prosperity, and already there's a palpable resentment that the violence could come back as a result of this." Before Singh, Thompson says, Hindus were commonly hauled out of public buses...
Fuhrman by Ken Lubas-Pool Holbrooke by Ivan Multinovic/Reuters Punjab by Kamal Kishore/Reuters France by Jack Dabaghian/Reuters Bernardo by Greig Reekie/Toronto Sun Liberia by Jean Marc Bouju/AP World War II by AP/File Turner by Ted Thai for TIME