Word: urdu
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...less radical seminaries, leaders say they have adopted new rules to curb such ferocity. "Any student or teacher who tries to do politics inside here," declares one principal, Mufti Mohammed Naeem, "is kicked out in 30 minutes. But," he admits, "jihad is everywhere, in graffiti, the Urdu newspapers, in tea-shop talk." Once his students leave campus, they are prey to extremist groups...
...Karachi's surviving cultural diversity: at a one-room shrine that has more to do with African tribalism than Islam, women flock to see Mushkan, a male Sheedi medium in white, womanly robes. When he goes into a trance, he says he communicates with his jinni in Arabic, Urdu and Swahili. Karachi's demons, it seems, are cosmopolitan...
...officers reassigned, officers speaking Urdu, Pashto, Farsi. How did you get it done...
...siege on the barricaded terrorists had finished them off, the carnage was even greater: 31 dead, over 70 wounded and a nation again shattered in the midst of a fragile attempt to rebuild after religious pogroms in March killed thousands in Gujarat. The temple gunmen were carrying leaflets in Urdu claiming membership in an unknown militant group calling itself Tehreek-e-Quasas, "Movement for Revenge," and saying that the attack was payback for the anti-Muslim killings in the spring. Indian leaders know well that in the complex physics of South Asian politics, the payback for this payback?another reprisal...
...contemporary genetics. I’d like to have some grasp of string theory, which I don’t think I do. Also, I would love to know more languages. I know one dead language and one living language, but I don’t understand Spanish, Chinese, Urdu. There is supposed to be some wonderful poetry in Urdu, and you can’t really tell in translation. So many things I would love to know. I always think about biology and physics, and how it is an intrinsically valuable thing to understand how the universe works...