Word: qadir
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After Karzai was elected president, he announced a permanent government that included Defense Minister Muhammad Qasim Fahim, Haji Abdul Qadir, and Kharim Khalili, all of whom are warlords suspected to be responsible for countless acts of brutalities under the former Taliban rule. Chief Justice Shinwari, who publicly has called for full support of sharia or Islamic law, was reappointed. The majority of the Judicial Commission, which is responsible for reconciling Islamic law with other legal traditions, was educated in religious schools...
That doesn't mean the deal was government to government. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf denies that his regime supplied Pyongyang's enrichment program. But in 1998 Washington slapped sanctions on the lab of Abdul Qadir Khan, the so-called father of Pakistan's Bomb. As head of the nation's nuclear program, he made the Ghauri as a carbon copy of North Korea's Nodong missile, say U.S. officials. Khan is believed to have established front companies and smuggling operations to gather and sell nuclear gear and blueprints. Musharraf forced his resignation as the lab's leader 18 months...
...least 10 people, while a few hours later in Kandahar, President Mohammed Karzai survived an assassination attempt by a shooter in Afghan army uniform. These were hardly isolated incidents: Thursday's bombing was the eighth in the capital in less than a month, and Karzai's deputy, Haji Abdul Qadir, had been assassinated there in July - prompting U.S. personnel to take over the president's security. The mounting campaign of bombings and ambushes of government and U.S. targets over the summer underscore not only the fragility of the U.S.-backed Karzai regime, but also a resurgent anti-American guerrilla campaign...
...begin replacing the country's war-lord armies. The graduates, mainly Pashtuns, Hazaras and Tajiks, had to come with references stating they had not served with the Taliban. Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai asked for American bodyguards to reinforce his security after the murder of Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir earlier this month. SOUTHERN AFRICA Adding More to Africa's Woes: Famine Two years of drought, flooding, political instability and incompetence have caused food shortages affecting as many as 15 million people in six southern African countries. Worst hit are Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia, where rains fell at the wrong...
...know there could be a great political cost from doing this," says the Western diplomat, "but that price, no matter how much, will be less than losing the president." Two weeks ago Kabul lost a key figure to assassins' bullets, deputy president and public works minister Haji Abdul Qadir. The loss was of more than another politician; Qadir was Karzai's rallying point for the vast Pashtun south which feels excluded - and threatened - by the Northern Alliance. Though the Qadir killing is most likely related to the drug trade, local power plays or revenge against a mujahedin warrior who made...