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  • "I guess he goes to Islamabad for now," I said.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • It was as different for us as Islamabad is from New York.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • The sun was setting on Islamabad by then, a flaming red nimbus in the west.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • We drove to Islamabad's twin city of Rawalpindi to see him in his office.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • A STARLESS, BLACK NIGHT falls over Islamabad.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • It was 7:30 in the evening in Islamabad, roughly about the same time in the morning in California.   (source)
  • "Now wait, we are coming to Islamabad," he shouted.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • The building itself was like a lot of buildings in Islamabad: flat and white.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • Islamabad was totally different from Swat.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • As soon as you can walk, I'll take you to Islamabad.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • Other times I am in a lot of places, in Jinnah Market in Islamabad, in Cheena Bazaar, and I am shot.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • Then I lay in my own bed, looking out the window at the purple sky over Islamabad.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • They did not realize people from Islamabad or even Peshawar would think me very backward.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • We had enjoyed a glimpse of a different life in Islamabad.   (source)
  • "Didn't know there were hawks in Islamabad," I said.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • Her name was Shiza Shahid and she came from Islamabad.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • It would be here, in Islamabad, not in Kabul.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • The work is not cumbersome, and, on their days off, she and Tariq take the children to ride the chairlift to Patriata hill, or go to Pindi Point, where, on a clear day, you can see as far as Islamabad and downtown Rawalpindi.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan
  • A woman filmmaker in Islamabad got hold of it and it was shown on Pakistan TV over and over, and then around the world.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • Omar Faisal works here in Islamabad.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • THE LAWN OUTSIDE the American embassy in Islamabad was neatly mowed, dotted with circular clusters of flowers, bordered by razor-straight hedges.   (source)
  • They streamed into Buner, the next district to the southeast of Swat and only sixty-five miles from Islamabad.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • There were suicide bombings all over the country: even the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad had been blown up.   (source)
  • Drive to the orphanage and drop Sohrab off with John and Betty Caldwell Then get a ride to Islamabad and change travel plans.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • He was a Pashtun like us, and when my father asked if he was from Islamabad he replied, "Do you think Islamabad can ever belong to us Pashtuns?"   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • Perched midway up the Margalla Hills, it gives a panoramic view of Islamabad, its rows of clean, tree-lined avenues and white houses.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
  • Sohrab was wearing the plain white T-shirt and new denims I had bought him in Islamabad just before we'd left—the shirt hung loosely over his bony, slumping shoulders.   (source)
  • Around the same time as our Taliban were emerging in Swat, the girls of the Red Mosque madrasa began terrorizing the streets of Islamabad.   (source)
    Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
  • Islamabad was a beautiful place with nice white bungalows and broad roads, though it has none of the natural beauty of Swat.   (source)
  • We didn't even have a television set, as someone had stolen ours while we were in Islamabad, using my father's "getaway" ladder to get inside.   (source)
  • Even in Islamabad buildings collapsed.   (source)
  • No one I knew had been to Islamabad.   (source)
  • The rest of Pakistan was preoccupied with something else—the Taliban had moved right into the heart of our nation's capital, Islamabad.   (source)
  • The previous October, the World Food Program office in Islamabad had been bombed and five aid workers were killed.   (source)
  • We were only a hundred miles from Pakistan's capital Islamabad as the crow flies, but it felt as if it were in another country.   (source)
  • On the last day we all had to give a speech at the Islamabad Club about our experiences in the valley under Taliban rule.   (source)
  • Within ten minutes my father was told arrangements would be made for them to move to Islamabad later that day.   (source)
  • Our friend Shiza and some of the activists we had met in Islamabad came to Mingora and distributed lots of money.   (source)
  • Foreigners who want to visit have to get a No Objection Certificate from the authorities in Islamabad.   (source)
  • The women were from Jamia Hafsa, the biggest female madrasa in our country and part of Lal Masjid—the Red Mosque in Islamabad.   (source)
  • Then, a complete family once more, we traveled down to Islamabad, where we stayed with the family of Shiza, the lady who had called us from Stanford.   (source)
  • Late on Wednesday night two military doctors who were intensive care specialists had arrived by road from Islamabad.   (source)
  • It took weeks of back and forth between Washington and Islamabad, or rather army headquarters in Rawalpindi, before the case was finally resolved.   (source)
  • In Pakistan we had had a woman prime minister and in Islamabad I had met those impressive working women, yet the fact was that we were a country where almost all the women depend entirely on men.   (source)
  • Then they disappeared off to Islamabad if they were elected to the National Assembly, or Peshawar for the Provincial Assembly, and we'd hear no more of them or their promises.   (source)
  • The most violent took place in Islamabad on 12 February 1989, when American flags were set alight in front of the American Center—even though Rushdie and his publishers were British.   (source)
  • A couple of days later, on 4 January 2011, Salman Taseer was gunned down by one of his own bodyguards after lunch in an area of fashionable coffee bars in Islamabad.   (source)
  • My father's old rival in college politics Ihsan ul-Haq Haqqani had become a journalist in Islamabad and organized a conference on the situation in Swat.   (source)
  • We saw pictures on the news of what people were calling the Burqa Brigade—young women and girls like us in burqas with sticks, attacking CD and DVD shops in bazaars in the center of Islamabad.   (source)
  • The ceremony was on 20 December 2011 at the prime minister's official residence, one of the big white mansions on the hill at the end of Constitution Avenue which I had seen on my trip to Islamabad.   (source)
  • He wanted the people of Peshawar and Islamabad to be aware of the terrible conditions in which IDPs were living and that the military were doing nothing.   (source)
  • One day Ahmad Shah received a warning from unknown people that they would kill him, so for a while he left for Islamabad to try to raise awareness there of what was happening to our valley.   (source)
  • When my parents moved to Kashmir House they were visited by Sonia Shahid, the mother of Shiza, our friend who had arranged the trip for all us Khushal School girls to Islamabad.   (source)
  • Ten days later a suicide bomber blew himself up in the army barracks at Dargai, on the way from Islamabad to Swat, and killed forty-two Pakistani soldiers.   (source)
  • The Americans say they gave Pakistan billions of dollars to help their campaign against al-Qaeda, but we didn't see a single cent. Musharraf built a mansion by Rawal Lake in Islamabad and bought an apartment in London.   (source)
  • Adam took us to Islamabad.   (source)
  • Before then mullahs had almost been figures of fun—my father said at wedding parties they would just hang around in a corner and leave early— but under Zia they became influential and were called to Islamabad for guidance on sermons.   (source)
  • Shiza Shahid, our friend from Islamabad, had finished her studies in Stanford and invited twenty-seven girls from the Khushal School to spend a few days in the capital seeing the sights and taking part in workshops to help us get over the trauma of living under the Taliban.   (source)
  • They went back and forth to Peshawar and Islamabad and gave lots of interviews on the radio, particularly to the Voice of America and the BBC, taking turns so there would always be one of them available.   (source)
  • The town, north of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, was named for British major James Abbott.†   (source)
  • In reality, the red velvet box containing the ruling was mailed from Qom to Islamabad.†   (source)
  • Sympathetic aid workers constantly urged her to move to Islamabad, where she could be safe.†   (source)
  • Arriving in Islamabad, Suleman's grinning face was the first thing he'd see after clearing customs.†   (source)
  • And the answer would come: Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore.†   (source)
  • After Mortenson's kidnapping, Suleman had chanced to pick him up at the Islamabad airport.†   (source)
  • He had arrived in Islamabad at dawn and must have slept all day.†   (source)
  • "But if we are, I've been to Islamabad.†   (source)
  • Once on the ground, we got word Walt had to stay in Islamabad because the Pakistanis only allowed one of us to move forward.†   (source)
  • In the twin cities of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, Pakistan, five thousand women and girls have been doused in kerosene and set alight by family members or in-laws--or, perhaps worse, been seared with acid--for perceived disobedience just in the last nine years.†   (source)
  • Kohistan was infamous for banditry and had never been more than nominally under control of Islamabad.†   (source)
  • I just left Islamabad two days ago.†   (source)
  • Perhaps, when he got to Islamabad, he'd use the last of his money to buy textbooks to send to their school, or supplies.†   (source)
  • Living in Islamabad's Blue Area, he had enough contact with the outside world that he could see what was coming.†   (source)
  • He pictured the hopeful faces of the Korphe men when they'd put him on a bus to Islamabad, sure, Inshallah, that he'd be back soon with money.†   (source)
  • After Finley returned to Islamabad to file his story, Mortenson approached the Afghan border post, to see what would happen.†   (source)
  • Islamabad was a planned city, built in the 1960s and 1970s as a world apart for Pakistan's rich and powerful.†   (source)
  • A few months earlier, Mortenson had read in the Islamabad papers about Pakistan's latest wave of Sunni-Shiite violence.†   (source)
  • The American Embassy in Islamabad declined to issue Mortenson another passport, since his was "suspiciously mutilated."†   (source)
  • And for the first time ever, villagers in the Braldu told me a few funds had trickled to them all the way from Islamabad.†   (source)
  • Mortenson returned to Islamabad with the temporary one-year passport the Katmandu Consulate had grudgingly issued him.†   (source)
  • "You go to Islamabad and get number-one visa, Taliban visa," he said, unslinging his gun, and with it, waving Mortenson on his way.†   (source)
  • The Nadia, where foreign businessmen often ate seven evenings a week while they were in Islamabad, offered theme nights to break up the monotony.†   (source)
  • In May 1996, when Mortenson filled out his arrival forms at the Islamabad airport, his pen hovered unfamiliarly over the box for "occupation."†   (source)
  • On the flight out of Islamabad he had felt so full of purpose, scheming a dozen different ways to raise money for the school.†   (source)
  • He had just enough money, if he ate simply and stayed in the cheapest guest houses, to travel by jeep and bus back to Islamabad and catch his flight home.†   (source)
  • Mortenson turned to see the blonde Canadian journalist Kathy Gannon, Islamabad's longtime AP bureau chief, smiling next to him in a conservatively cut shalwar kamiz, waiting for a table, too.†   (source)
  • "Down the Braldu Valley, heading for Skardu, Islamabad, and home, Mortenson's jeep crawled through a snowstorm that announced winter had hit the Karakoram full force.†   (source)
  • Aside from the king's security detail and a small crew of stewardesses, Mortenson was alone on the short flight from Islamabad to Kabul with Afghanistan's former monarch.†   (source)
  • Mortenson paced his powerless room in the Kabul Peace Guest House, annoyed that he hadn't remembered to charge his laptop and camera batteries in Islamabad.†   (source)
  • The lawns of Islamabad were so supernaturally green, the shade trees so lush, in such an otherwise dry, dusty place, that they hinted at forces powerful enough to transform even nature's intentions.†   (source)
  • When he was growing up in a family of seven children, in the modest village of Dhok Luna on the Punjab plain between Islamabad and Lahore, mutton was served only on very special occasions.†   (source)
  • The next day, Colonel Ilyas escorted them to Islamabad in the MI-17, where they landed at President Musharraf 's personal helipad, for the heightened security it offered.†   (source)
  • They found it ironic that the Islamabad government would fight so hard to pry away this piece of what had once been Kashmir from India, while doing so little for its people.†   (source)
  • And here he was in leafy Islamabad's teeming twin city, low-rent Rawalpindi, in what the manager of the Khyaban Hotel assured him was his "cheapliest" room.†   (source)
  • Each evening like clockwork, a group of the top Taliban leadership in Islamabad walked through the marble lobby of the Marriot in their turbans and flowing black robes and waited for a table at the Nadia Coffee Shop, coming to see the circus, too.†   (source)
  • Mortenson often had tea with Wali Massoud when he passed through London on his way to Islamabad, discussing the girls' schools he hoped to build in Afghanistan if the country ever became stable enough for him to work there.†   (source)
  • He convinced Mortenson to stay at an inexpensive guest house he knew in Islamabad, in a much safer location than his old standby, the Khyaban, where sectarian bomb blasts had begun terrorizing the neighborhood nearly every Friday after Juma prayers.†   (source)
  • "After distributing forty dollars of CAI's money to Uzra and twenty dollars to each of her ninety teachers, who hadn't been receiving their salaries either, Mortenson saw Bergman safely onto a United Nations charter flight to Islamabad and began trying to track down Uzra's money.†   (source)
  • The common refrain was how a combination of corruption and neglect siphoned off what little money was meant for the people of Baltistan as it made the long journey from Islamabad, the capital, to these distant mountain valleys.†   (source)
  • Mortenson cracked open the brand-new satellite phone he'd purchased for the trip and called his friend Brigadier General Bashir in Islamabad, to confirm that a helicopter would be available two days later to pick them up in Zuudkhan.†   (source)
  • Suleman slowed, reluctantly, to present his documents at a police barricade protecting the Blue Area, the modern diplomatic enclave where Islamabad's government buildings, embassies, and business hotels were arranged between grids of boulevards built on a heroic scale.†   (source)
  • Though Waziristan has been nominally a part of Pakistan since 1947, the little influence Islamabad has ever had on the Wazir has been the product of bribes distributed to tribal leaders and fortresslike army garrisons with little control over anything out of sight of their gun slits.†   (source)
  • After their taxi had been stopped by a police roadblock on the way to the airport for Mortenson's flight home, Suleman had talked his way past the police with such easygoing charm that Mortenson offered him a job as CAI's "fixer" in Islamabad before getting on his flight.†   (source)
  • At a meeting over tea, trout, and cucumber sandwiches in his headquarters, a nineteenth-century British colonial villa in Gilgit, he sought Mortenson's advice about where to spend the money now finally flowing north from Musharraf 's government in Islamabad.†   (source)
  • He had stitched together half of the globe, on a fifty-six-hour itinerary dictated by his cut-rate ticket, from SFO to Atlanta, to Frankfurt to Abu Dhabi to Dubai and, finally, out of this tunnel of time zones and airless departure lounges to the swelter and frenzy of Islamabad airport.†   (source)
  • The gunmen guarding the bridge lived up a valley nearby and claimed that a contractor from the government in distant lowland Islamabad arrived with millions of rupees earmarked to widen their game trails into logging roads, so these men could sell their timber.†   (source)
  • Unlike Skardu's handful of tourist resorts, which were hidden away among idyllic landscaped grounds, this clean and inexpensive hotel sat on Skardu's main road without pretension, between Changazi's compound and a PSO gas station, mere feet from the Bedfords rumbling by on their way back to Islamabad.†   (source)
  • Hussein, Apo, and Faisal had arrived in Islamabad to fetch Mortenson, and Apo had convinced him to attempt the thirty-six-hour drive to Skardu over the Deosai's often-impassible roads, since the Karakoram Highway was jammed with military convoys hauling supplies to the war zone and carrying truckloads of shahids, or martyrs, home for funerals.†   (source)
  • Bashir flew low and fast, hugging the scrubby hillsides, and by the time Islamabad's most noticeable landmark, the Saudi-financed Faisal Mosque, with its four minarets and massive, tentlike prayer hall capable of accommodating seventy-thousand worshipers, had faded behind them, they were practically in Lahore.†   (source)
  • And achieving destructive parity with their Hindu neighbor provoked such an acute spike in national pride—and approval for Pakistan's government—that Sharif had a scale model of the peak in the Chagai Hills where the "Muslim Bomb" was detonated constructed next to a freeway overpass at Zero Point, the spot where 'Pindi and Islamabad intersect.†   (source)
  • Suleman slalomed through slow-moving traffic on the highway connecting 'Pindi to its twin city, Islamabad, steering one-handed, while he speed-dialed his prize possession, a burgundy Sony cell phone the size of a book of matches, alerting the manager of the Home Sweet Home Guest House to hold their room because his sahib would be arriving late.†   (source)
  • In 1968, the Chinese, anxious to create an easy route to a new market for their manufactured goods, to limit Soviet influence in Central Asia, and to cement a strategic alliance against India, offered to supervise and fund the completion of the thirteen-hundred-kilometer route from Kashgar, in southwestern China, to Islamabad.†   (source)
  • If Peshawar was the city that reminded me of what Kabul used to be, then Islamabad was the city Kabul could have become someday.   (source)
    Islamabad = capital of Pakistan (Pakistan is between Afghanistan and India)
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