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...come to see where we make the bombs," Maulana (teacher) Adil Siddiqui, said to a teenager who asked who I was. Siddiqui was a broadcaster with All-India Radio, the state radio, until he retired to this seminary to escape the world. This seminary is Dar-ul-uloom, or the place of knowledge, home to 3,500 boys and young men, mostly from poor families, in the Indian farming town of Deoband. It is also the spiritual home of the particular brand of Islam practiced by the Taliban...
...find seemed too amazing to be true. In fact, it was. Last month, after five months of chemical tests, microbial diagnosis, X-rays, radiocarbon dating and 200 C.T. scans, Pakistani experts concluded the mummy is a fake. "The mummified body is 100% modern," according to archaeological chemist Muhammad Toseef-ul-Hassan. What initially seemed to be one of the world's most intriguing archaeological discoveries is turning into one of Pakistan's strangest murder mysteries...
Authorities may never know the identity of the victim?believed to have been no more than 21 years old when she died?or of her enterprising murderer (or team of killers) who went to enormous trouble to duplicate mummification techniques and the ancient cuneiform writing. Saleem ul Haq, director of Karachi's archaeology department, is convinced the perpetrator of the fraud is "definitely someone who has links to archaeology." But as good as his attention to detail may have been, it wasn't good enough. The first clue: South Asia's ancient civilizations had no tradition of mummification. Also...
...peace with New Delhi. Still, there may be elements in his security forces that oppose such a dialogue. Indeed, while Hizbul remains a predominantly Kashmiri organization that is mostly nationalist in character, its rivals, such as Lakshar-e-Toiba (suspected of being behind Tuesday's massacre), Al Badr, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and others are essentially Pakistani organizations, whose members include large number of Punjabis and Afghanis committed to a "jihad" against India. And the fact that they may have some support in Pakistani security circles to act in defiance of Islamabad's wishes has to worry Musharraf...
...fighting terrorism. The government has extradited three key terrorists in the past, most recently a leader of the plot to kill U.S. tourists overseas during millennium celebrations. Yet U.S. officials believe--and Pakistan denies--that Pakistan funds, trains and supports a terrorist group deemed close to bin Laden, Harakat ul-Mujahedin, whose leader signed the Saudi millionaire's fatwa against the U.S. Counterterrorism experts hope Clinton's visit to Pakistan on March 25 will help tip the balance back toward its being an ally...