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...missed Omar's convoy by minutes. In Kandahar local residents said U.S. missiles demolished part of his house. Since then, he has bounced from one mountain hideout to the next. Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, indicated that it took him two days to travel from Quetta, just across the border, to Omar's hideaway. But inconvenience has not demoralized the Taliban chief, Zaeef told TIME: "He and the Taliban fighters are excited...
...appearances in this part of the world can be deceptive. Ostentation attracts envy - and trouble. It turns out this merchant, Haji Amanullah, and his brothers are very rich and very famous around these parts. They live in a 130-room palace outside Chaman and have offices in Tokyo, Dubai, Quetta and Karachi. He's going to Paris next week to buy lots of tires, and he mentions the name of his hotel on the Champs Elysee. "Rooms in that hotel are $1,500 a night," Jerome, the other photographer, whispers to me. The merchant goes there because he likes...
...join America's war on terrorism, Musharraf initiated one of the most dramatic U-turns in Pakistan's history. Now he sits on a powder keg. Makeshift 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...
...magnificent carpet in his vast reception room, Shirzai holds court daily, propped against a bolster, surrounded by whispering attendants and discreetly armed bodyguards. For the past month, a steady stream of low-level tribal leaders from across the border in Afghanistan has appeared at his ornate doors in Quetta, Pakistan, seeking an audience with a man they expect will soon return from a five-year exile. His contacts and prominence?Shirzai heads an ancient and powerful clan?make him a strong contender to replace the local Taliban leaders if they fall in the southern region of Kandahar where...
...join America's war on terrorism, Musharraf initiated one of the most dramatic U-turns in Pakistan's history. Now he sits on a powder keg. Makeshift 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...