Word: tribalized
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...Though the country has had something of an economic boom of late, the blush is off the rose. Prices are rising and blackouts common. Extremist groups have gained power-last week an Islamic court in the tribal areas sentenced and executed four people for adultery. Towns in the northern provinces bordering Afghanistan are run by a Pakistani Taliban that has shut down barbershops, girls' schools and polio-vaccination programs. In Islamabad, students from the fundamentalist Jamia Hafsa seminary have occupied a children's library less than a mile from the Parliament building. Abdul Aziz, head of the Lal Masjid mosque...
...growing body of evidence that Iraqis aren't ready or willing to perform their appointed tasks. What does that imply for the U.S. military operation and when it might end? Or for the development of an Iraqi polity in which officials and soldiers grant the state?not sectarian or tribal divisions - their primary loyalty? Would it not mean that the very predicates upon which the war depended had collapsed...
...lived overseas or has spent time in the military or in negotiations with foreign leaders. It was possible for George W. Bush to run for President in 2000 without knowing the name of the President of Pakistan; the next President will have to know the history, politics and tribal leaders of Waziristan, the Pakistani province that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are using as a safe haven...
...regularly traveled around the area to speak with business and tribal leaders in order to gather data and gain a better feel for the country’s economic conditions...
...that movement, Nelson Mandela, in fact turned out to be one of the few great giants of the twentieth century. (It’s still embarrassing to remember that the wise men of the College, President Derek C. Bok chief among them, placed their bets instead on the avaricious tribal leader Mangosothu Buthelezi.) When Mandela was finally freed, one of his first trips abroad was to visit the American universities to thank those who had worked for divestiture. I’m not given to much sentimentality about the best-years-of-our-lives-etc., but it did make...