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...Ismat Ullah's expression of polite amiability is oddly out of sync with the fury of his words. In the 20 years he has spent as a Pakistani immigrant in Britain, slurs and rejections have engendered an abiding bitterness. But the mask remains in place. "I keep it all inside," he explains. "I listen to the jokes about Indians and Pakistanis, and I laugh so as not to show my weakness. But I resent it. As a colored person here, you have to be different from what you are. You have to keep a cosmetic appearance...
...cost of keeping up that appearance is high. Despite his youthful face, Ullah, 41, relies on tranquilizers to remain calm, and the occasional stabbing pain warns him when too much stress has awakened his duodenal ulcer. He earned...
...Today Ullah is affluent by immigrant standards. He earns $19,500 as an administrator for a manufacturer of security devices; on the side, he and his wife Nighat run two thriving shops, a grocery store and a clothing boutique, in the East London borough of Newham...
...enough to offset the heartbreak of racial insults and random attacks from young white thugs. The Ullahs and their children-Daughters Sonia, 15, Shazia, 14, and Samia, 10, and Son Sohail, 6-believe they are living a life under siege, and they have had enough. This year they are returning to Pakistan. "This country is not my home," declares Ismat Ullah, "but I have learned something here I'll value as long as I live: to work hard, to be tolerant and to fight and not give...
Bazargan's impassioned plea for unity came at the end of the state funeral for Major General Vali Ullah Gharani, 65, who had been gunned down in the courtyard of his house by three unknown assailants. The first chief of staff of the army after the revolution, Gharani had been fired from his post in March after his harsh campaign against Kurdish rebels in Sanandaj; nonetheless, he was given full military honors. During the funeral procession, which drew a throng of 50,000 mourners, security guards seized a young man in an air force uniform who was running toward...