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...doubt that? Then listen to Muzammal Shah, a member of the Kashmiri radical group Lashkar-e-Tayyaba in Islamabad. "Thousands of Kashmiris have been martyred," he says. "We cannot let the blood of those people go to waste." To touch those who define life as a blood feud, diplomacy, however skillful, is a trembling wand...
...1900s, when King Mohammed Zahir Shah ruled Afghanistan, wealthy women strolled Kabul's streets in jeans and Western dresses. The Soviets, although brutal in their occupation of the country, maintained women's rights during their decade-long rule. But when the Islam-inspired mujahedin government took over in 1992, life began to change. Women still could attend university, especially to study in the medical and educational fields, but many started wearing head scarves to appease the mullahs. When the Taliban came to power in 1996, its fanatical clerics erased all remaining rights: women are forbidden to leave the house without...
...would have been a farmer, working in the lush wheat fields and fruit orchards of the Shomali Plain around Bagram. Instead, at 27, he has seen six years of combat. With his high-set cheekbones, goatee, checked shawl and round woolen cap he bears a passing resemblance to Ahmad Shah Massoud, the assassinated commander who assembled these forces. In a conventional army Allah Mahmad would be a captain. Here he's called commander, a hard-earned rank denoting his seniority not over some alphabet-soup unit in a regimental chain of command but instead over a specific band...
...Saif I. Shah Mohammed ’02 is an economics concentrator in Leverett House. Zayed M. Yasin ’02 is a biomedical engineering concentrator in Leverett House. Shah Mohammed is President of the Harvard Islamic Society (HIS). Yasin is a former president...
...group's various factions are not of one mind. "It's just a ragbag of different forces," a senior British official says of the alliance. He says its Uzbek faction rejects the group's new military commander, General Mohammed Fahim, successor to the charismatic Ahmed Shah Massoud, who was assassinated Sept. 9. The Uzbeks do support a loya jirga, as do some other commanders, like Yousnou Kanuni from the Jamiat faction. But others, like Abdul Rasul Sayyaf of the Ittehad-i-Islami, don't. The alliance's titular foreign minister, Abdullah Abdullah, complains that with the loya jirga...