Word: yusuf
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...much negative energy to turn around, but you also don’t want to do it at a time that is insensitive to other people.” While setting up for their next song, Chetro thanked the members of the Islamic Society for hosting the singer/songwriter Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, last year; because of that event the bandmembers were able to meet one of their musical influences. The acknowledgement also appeared to be an attempt to create unity with a minority group cast into the public spotlight because of the religious affiliation of those responsible...
...policies. Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three key generals who had engineered the October 1999 coup that brought him to power. He replaced the vice chief of staff with Lieut. General Muhammad Yusuf Khan, a moderate general whose friends call him "Joe." He kicked upstairs to a ceremonial post a key corps commander considered sympathetic to the ideological extreme. He replenished the upper ranks with loyal officers more ready to side with the Taliban's enemies...
...policies. Just about everyone was taken off guard, only a few hours before the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan began, when Musharraf smoothly purged three key generals who had engineered the October 1999 coup that brought him to power. He replaced the vice chief of staff with Lieut. General Muhammad Yusuf Khan, a moderate general whose friends call him "Joe." He kicked upstairs to a ceremonial post a key corps commander considered sympathetic to the ideological extreme. He replenished the upper ranks with loyal officers more ready to side with the Taliban's enemies...
...Born in the second year of fighting, the sound is as familiar to her as the bleat of a goat. Like everyone else, she runs for cover in the roadside stalls where her mother usually buys the family's daily bread. She finds herself crouching next to laborer Mohammed Yusuf Gania and two other men, including Gul Mohammed Gania, a mason. Gul picks up Nadiya and the group runs inside a shop. They swing the shutters down and huddle in a corner. But then Nadiya begins crying. Outside, soldiers hear her. "They're in there," the soldiers shout, demanding...
...burial, Gul says the authorities are claiming that Nadiya and Yusuf were caught in cross fire between security forces and separatist rebels. But he and other villagers are adamant there was no firefight. They say a policeman protecting the homes of minority Sikhs discharged his rifle by accident and the soldiers, on patrol nearby, thought they were under fire. "Even if there was a militant attack, who did they kill?" asks Nadiya's father, Nazir. His wife, Misra, looks at a picture of her dead daughter and begins to cry again...