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...frontier" - a sign both of its remoteness from Beijing and the difficulty of governing it. That challenge centers on the Uighurs, who comprise the region's majority population and claim a linguistic and cultural heritage that is markedly different from that of the rest of China. And while six decades of communist Chinese rule have brought tremendous prosperity to some, modernization has also raised a profound disconnect between the region's old inhabitants and newer arrivals. Encouraged by Beijing, millions of Han Chinese have migrated west, imbued with a state-sanctioned spirit of manifest destiny. As skyscrapers loom where bazaars...
...tarp with his 5-year-old daughter. When the tremor struck, Dullah fled his house with his 2-year-old son Fajar. But he was soon inundated by two waves of earth and lost his grip on the boy. Two days later, Fajar's body was found. Only six of Dullah's 31 neighbors survived. Marooned in such an isolated place, they had no idea that tragedy extended far beyond their own community. Learning that thousands probably perished in the quake, Dullah hugged his remaining child in his arms. "Compared to many people, I am lucky," he told...
...They’re always good when we play them,” Murphy said. “I think three out of the past six years they’ve been Patriot League champions and gone to the playoffs. They’re definitely a better team than they were a year ago and they were very good a year...
...They’re always good when we play them,” Murphy said. “I think three out of the past six years they’ve been Patriot League champions and gone to the playoffs. They’re definitely a better team than they were a year ago, and they were very good a year...
...Indian one, and back again. Before the attacks in Lahore, a suicide car bomb exploded near a police station in the northwest's Kohat city, killing three police officers and eight civilians. And when the Lahore violence was over, another car bomb exploded in Peshawar, killing a six-year-old boy and wounded nine others, mainly women and children. Security is also being beefed up in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital and biggest city - and the only to have so far remained immune from terrorism...