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  • He reads about U.S. planes bombing Vietcong supply routes in Cambodia, Naxalites being murdered on the streets of Calcutta, India and Pakistan going to war.†   (source)
  • After coming in on one of Enrique's many tireless interrogations about my father's whereabouts —interrogations that often brought me close to tears; he might as well have been grilling me about the location of missile sites in Pakistan—she sent me out of the room and then in a controlled monotone put a stop to it ("Well I mean, obviously the boy doesn't know where he is, the mother didn't know either …. yes, I know you'd like to find him but clearly the man doesn't want to be found,…†   (source)
  • Previously, Fischer had successfully guided one 8,000-meter mountain:* 26,400-foot Broad Peak in the Karakoram Range of Pakistan, in 1995.†   (source)
  • It was the Pakistani table, with a display sponsored by the Economics Club, detailing how the market for maunds (a Pakistani unit of measurement) of rice was falling.†   (source)
  • Somewhere out in the darkness, to our starboard side, was the Pakistani city of Quetta, which used to be quite important when the Brits ran the place.†   (source)
  • After the Clarification, there was an improv comedy battle on campus, a fundraiser for a school in rural Pakistan, a wine tasting, and finally an all-campus barbecue, with music by a Peruvian trance choir.†   (source)
  • …other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here-once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel-once the Invisible Hand has taken all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity-y'know what?†   (source)
  • Lowe was born in Pakistan and educated at the Woodstock School in Mussoorie, India, but he chose a different path.†   (source)
  • She stood looking at him, at the darkening, bloody sheets with vague consternation , her face was the face of a woman who hears on her radio that an earthquake has killed ten thousand people in Pakistan or Turkey.†   (source)
  • I think they're Pakistanis.†   (source)
  • When his bouts of violence began to include the children, and the war with Pakistan began, Ammu left her husband and returned, unwelcomed, to her parents in Ayemenem.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I admired long, bright Pakistani dresses; Moody bought them for us.†   (source)
  • The local kids left him alone and instead terrorized a Pakistani family down the street.†   (source)
  • The information on the cart was from a variety of sources, but to Ryan the most significant were tactical radio intercepts from listening posts on the Pakistani border, and, he gathered, from inside Afghanistan itself.†   (source)
  • Imagine the outcry if the Pakistani or Indian governments were burning women alive at those rates.†   (source)
  • One Pakistani died.†   (source)
  • The Middle East, with an emphasis on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • Jeff Buschmann and Adam flying their state colors at an observation post a stone's throw from the Pakistan border.†   (source)
  • "I've been flying in northern Pakistan for forty years," he said, waggling his head, the subcontinent's most distinctive gesture.†   (source)
  • These failures have cast a dark shadow over humanity: two World Wars, countless civil wars, the senseless chain of assassinations -- Gandhi, the Kennedys, Martin Luther King, Sadat, Rabin -- bloodbaths in Cambodia and Nigeria, India and Pakistan, Ireland and Rwanda, Eritrea and Ethiopia, Sarajevo and Kosovo; the inhumanity in the gulag and the tragedy of Hiroshima.†   (source)
  • Or else a Muslim from Pakistan or India.†   (source)
  • 350 J O D I P I C OU LT There was an appeal that had been filed in the Supreme Court by the attorneys of a skinhead who'd written the word towelhead in white paint on the driveway of his employer, a Pakistani convenience store owner who'd fired him for being drunk on the job; some research about why the words under God had been added to the Pledge of Allegiance in i954 during the McCarthy era; and a stack of mail equally balanced between desperate souls who wanted me to fight on their…†   (source)
  • I spent nine hours yesterday in conferences with the highest-level delegates for Russia, China, India, and Pakistan.†   (source)
  • And as an American Muslim of Pakistani descent, this attack is tearing me apart.†   (source)
  • She hires the real down-and-outs, immigrants from Russia or Pakistan, people who don't speak any English, figuring she can get them cheap.†   (source)
  • Pakistan.†   (source)
  • But the First Lady, as the whole world knows from the many media accounts, is halfway around the globe on an official visit to India and Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Today the countries are Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, but they're going through exactly what my grandfather did almost a hundred years ago.†   (source)
  • …at Carnegie Hall.
    Like a crow swimming in milk,
    like a nose being hit by a mango
    like the crowd at the Royal-Thomian match,
    a womb full of twins, a pariah dog
    with a magpie in its mouth
    like the midnight jet from Casablanca
    like Air Pakistan curry,
    a typewriter on fire, like a spirit in the gas
    which cooks your dinner,
    like a hundred pappadans being crunched, like someone
    uselessly trying to light 3 Roses matches in a dark room,
    the clicking sound of a reef when you put…†   (source)
  • The reporter speaks to several drivers at the company garages, and though all of them are concerned and scared there's nobody who can speak for the drivers as a group, who even wants to, they're too different from one another, they're recently arrived Latvians and Jamaicans, Pakistanis, Hmong.†   (source)
  • One was the Oxus-Jaxartes Basin in modern-day Pakistan and Afghanistan, or Af-Pak as our friends in America are fond of calling it.†   (source)
  • Cases of it had been stolen from NGOs in Afghanistan and the tribal areas of Pakistan.†   (source)
  • So many quota spots to fill with people from Pakistan and Fresno, right?†   (source)
  • Twenty-eight million live in Pakistan, and 12.†   (source)
  • He had lived his whole life in Pakistan in the Jalozai refugee camp where he'd been born.†   (source)
  • Pakistanis were Hindus who saw the light of the true God and converted.†   (source)
  • She had learned this in school from a Pakistani classmate.†   (source)
  • They were Afghan slaves, not true Pakistanis.†   (source)
  • While we were in Pakistan during the war.†   (source)
  • He said we were guests in Pakistan who'd outstayed their welcome.†   (source)
  • If I said no, then, "Pakistani, Afghan, or Punjabi?"†   (source)
  • Abdullah has a brother in Pakistan, Mother said.†   (source)
  • As for the British, India, Pakistan, and Israel, we are demanding their entire nuclear arsenals.†   (source)
  • I have a brother who lives in Zahidan, at the border of Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Rapes used to be widespread in rural Pakistan, because there was no disincentive.†   (source)
  • Others are all Pakistani or all Filipino.†   (source)
  • I'd say we're going into Pakistan and we're basing out of Afghanistan."†   (source)
  • In 1987, I was in Pakistan to climb Gasherbrum II, one of the world's highest peaks.†   (source)
  • Not for the first time, Mortenson wondered if Pakistan wasn't more of an idea than a country.†   (source)
  • At night, the Pakistani compound received fire from the area of nearby trees and buildings.†   (source)
  • Winter deployments often were, as fighters moved back into Pakistan to wait for warmer weather.†   (source)
  • In contrast, the average MMR in South Asia (including India and Pakistan) is 490.†   (source)
  • We left the Pakistani compound at 1700 and arrived in the hangar at around 1730.†   (source)
  • Mortenson had grown used to being greeted at airports in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • I have someone meeting with a tribal leader from Zahidan; perhaps we can get you out into Pakistan.†   (source)
  • We had received reports that he was coming back into Afghanistan from Pakistan for a final stand.†   (source)
  • Two Pakistanis and one Spaniard were wounded.†   (source)
  • Now he was praying like a Sunni at the heart of Shiite Pakistan.†   (source)
  • You have shamed Pakistan before the world.†   (source)
  • The smugglers would take us to Quetta, in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Pakistan's military has always maintained a state of high alert against India.†   (source)
  • There were many Indians, Saudis, Pakistanis, Egyptians, and a smattering of other expatriates.†   (source)
  • "Mukhtar means well, but she's just a peasant," one Pakistani told us scornfully.†   (source)
  • After Korphe, no CAI project in Pakistan was closer to Mortenson's heart than the Hemasil School.†   (source)
  • Casanova and I began surveillance on Atto's garage from the Pakistani tower at 0600.†   (source)
  • I chose a pretty dress, a blue cotton Pakistani frock with long sleeves and a ruffle at the bottom.†   (source)
  • Mukhtar denounced the Pakistani government for doing so and refused to be intimidated.†   (source)
  • We rode Huey helicopters out to the Pakistani Stadium, then rode local vehicles to two houses.†   (source)
  • He couldn't keep returning to Pakistan forever.†   (source)
  • We'd gone all the way to Pakistan to get him.†   (source)
  • Besides the 2007 spin-up, all of the intelligence we received had him hiding in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • I had no connections in Pakistan and never could have done it myself.†   (source)
  • Aidid's militia fired a 106 mm recoilless rifle, blasting the lead Pakistani tank into flames.†   (source)
  • Pakistani spies no longer tailed us when Mukhtar showed us around the nearby villages.†   (source)
  • He sat up and looked around the motel room, imagining he was still in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Because it housed the Pakistani UN troops' compound, we called it the Pakistani Stadium.†   (source)
  • To save time, they took the most direct route over Pakistan's military academy.†   (source)
  • Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • Jalalabad airfield is located just a few miles from the Pakistan border.†   (source)
  • Pakistan now operated under martial law.†   (source)
  • It is the home of Pakistan's military academy.†   (source)
  • Pakistan's supreme Shia cleric handed Mortenson an envelope.†   (source)
  • Only the target and the fact that we were in Pakistan made this mission significant.†   (source)
  • My brain went back to the booklet on Pakistan's air defenses.†   (source)
  • But as in India, certain public figures in Pakistan begin to transcend the merely mortal realm.†   (source)
  • Ever since the violent partition that pulled India and Pakistan apart, Kashmir had been combustible.†   (source)
  • It was a race to get him back before they smuggled him to Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Peshawar is the capital of Pakistan's wild west.†   (source)
  • What color are police lights in Pakistan?†   (source)
  • The first uplift water scheme in the history of northern Pakistan took eight weeks to build.†   (source)
  • The town, north of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital, was named for British major James Abbott.†   (source)
  • Maps of Pakistan hung on one wall, including maps of a city called Abbottabad.†   (source)
  • Colorful world maps and portraits of Pakistan's leaders decorated the walls.†   (source)
  • We wanted proof to show to Pakistan and the rest of the world we got Bin Laden.†   (source)
  • But I had no way to reach you in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • We know about Dr. Greg build school in Pakistan so you can come build for us?†   (source)
  • They safely negotiated the Pakistani air defenses and now were minutes from getting us home.†   (source)
  • Luckily for us, the Pakistanis obliged and went back into their houses.†   (source)
  • Mortenson was booked on a British Airways flight to Pakistan that was due to depart on Sunday.†   (source)
  • From the air, the problems of Pakistan appeared simple.†   (source)
  • In my mind, I could see Pakistani jets chasing us.†   (source)
  • "Each successfully completed project added luster to Mortenson's reputation in northern Pakistan.†   (source)
  • We had evaded the Pakistani radar and antiaircraft missiles on the way in and arrived undetected.†   (source)
  • ""I build elementary schools, mostly for girls, in northern Pakistan.†   (source)
  • As a hub for Pakistan's black-market economy, the city was filled with unsavory characters.†   (source)
  • Most of our staff in Pakistan were thrilled to make four hundred or five hundred dollars a year.†   (source)
  • Much had changed over Mortenson's last year in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • "Without Ghulam Parvi, I never would have accomplished anything in Pakistan," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • And as I found in Pakistan, Mortenson's Central Asia Institute does, irrefutably, have the results.†   (source)
  • "I want you to write up a list of all the names and numbers of your contacts in Pakistan," he said.†   (source)
  • He was so passionate about Pakistan, and that passion spilled over into everything else he did.†   (source)
  • She explained that her students had spontaneously launched a "Pennies for Pakistan" drive.†   (source)
  • "I don't want to teach Pakistan's children to think like Americans," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Mortenson had lived with monkish frugality since his return from Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Until then, Mortenson had left home to be in Pakistan for three or four months at a time.†   (source)
  • "Many of their schools and mosques are doing good work to help Pakistan's poor.†   (source)
  • Agha Mubarek had issued a fatwa, banning Mortenson from working in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • "Since I started working in Pakistan, I haven't slept much," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • Not every obstacle to education in northern Pakistan was so easily overcome.†   (source)
  • Nowadays, you are the same as a Pakistan man.†   (source)
  • He spoke about Pakistan's impoverished public schools.†   (source)
  • For a rare untethered month he left Pakistan and Bozeman behind and flew to Southeast Asia.†   (source)
  • His schools are just a drop in the bucket when you look at the scale of the problem in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Suleman was the first person in Pakistan to get the good news.†   (source)
  • He went to bed by 9:00 P.M., after making "morning" calls to Pakistan.†   (source)
  • ""Have you ever to been to a rural village in northern Pakistan?†   (source)
  • Zuudkhan, the last settlement in Pakistan, appeared at the end of the valley.†   (source)
  • Through this pipeline between Pakistan and Afghanistan historic forces were traveling.†   (source)
  • Because if he came bearing the worst news, Mortenson might be banished from Pakistan forever.†   (source)
  • The only gainer in the whole equation is Pakistan.†   (source)
  • "Thinking back on all of it," McCown says, "no one in Pakistan was anything but wonderful to us.†   (source)
  • If you learn only one thing from me, learn this lesson well: Never go anywhere in Pakistan alone.†   (source)
  • So I can put up a picture of the school I am building in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Mortenson had been invited to dozens of weddings since he'd first arrived in Pakistan.†   (source)
  • The Imam Bara Mosque, like much of Shia Pakistan, showed little of its face to the outside world.†   (source)
  • "She didn't even ask one question about my work, or the children of Pakistan," Mortenson says.†   (source)
  • "Now why do you want to go to Pakistan?" he asked, buckling down to business.†   (source)
  • ""There are certain Europeans who come to Pakistan determined to tear Islam down," Syed Abbas says.†   (source)
  • Just got off the phone with new CAI Pakistan Project Manager Ghulam Parvi.†   (source)
  • He woke up at 2:00 or 3:00 A.M., in time to contact Pakistanis before the close of business.†   (source)
  • What if you took me to one of the Pakistani army posts?†   (source)
  • Bedfords rumbled in from the front lines, filled with coffins solemnly draped in the Pakistani flag.†   (source)
  • Here the Pakistani army produced replicas of aging Soviet tanks.†   (source)
  • "Now you look 50 percent Pakistani," he said.†   (source)
  • CAI schools would teach the exact same curriculum as any good Pakistani government school.†   (source)
  • And on the far side, not a mile distant, he saw the fortified towers of a Pakistani army post.†   (source)
  • "So," Mortenson said, "do I look like a Pakistani?†   (source)
  • After 9/11, he and Kathy knew that many imaginations had run amok, that the introduction of the idea of "sleeper cells"—groups of would-be terrorists living in the U.S. and waiting, for years or decades, to strike—meant that everyone at their mosque, or the entire mosque itself, might be waiting for instructions from their presumed leaders in the hills of Afghanistan or Pakistan.†   (source)
  • Still, it was a time of exodus, and many families from our neighborhood packed their things and left the country for either Pakistan or Iran, with hopes of resettling somewhere in the West.†   (source)
  • 1st months in May 1995, he summitted Everest a third time without using gas, on this occasion as an employee of Hall' expedition, and three later he climbed 26,400-foot Broad Peak, in Pakistan, while working for Fischer.†   (source)
  • The problem was that while the majority of these rivers flowed into India, Pakistan, and Indochina, the glacial watersheds were located entirely within Tibet, a part of China.†   (source)
  • My father's only other regular contact in college had been his roommate, a Pakistani who spent his days preparing curry.†   (source)
  • The improv comedy battle was appropriately terrible and funny despite its wall-to-wall incompetence, the Pakistan fundraiser was thoroughly inspiring—the event was able to amass 2.†   (source)
  • Pakistan has decreed its authorities can operate on tarmac roads and then for twenty meters on either side of the road.†   (source)
  • He spoke fondly of his Pakistani roommate, who made delicious curry, but whose name he no longer remembered.†   (source)
  • Dynamic and statuesque, thirty-eight years old, Fox was a ski patroller from Aspen, Colorado, who'd previously summitted two 8,000-meter peaks: Gasherbrum II in Pakistan, at 26,361 feet, and Everest's 26,748-foot neighbor, Clio Oyu.†   (source)
  • In 1958 he'd made history as the driving force behind the first ascent of Hidden Peak, a 26,470-foot mountain in the Karakoram Range of Pakistan-the highest first ascent ever achieved by American climbers.†   (source)
  • Never mind there's no shooting across the border in Pakistan, the illegality of the Taliban army, the Geneva Convention, yada, yada, yada.†   (source)
  • The restaurant reminded me of a Pakistani rug shop I know in Northern California, which in addition to carpets, started selling used computer parts and eventually added falafel.†   (source)
  • The instructions disappeared, and the question arrived: Intelligence agencies have located terrorist mastermind Mohammed Khalil al-Hamed in a lightly populated area of rural Pakistan.†   (source)
  • The names of those singers and actors from the Pakistan side were more familiar to me, growing up, than their Indian counterparts.†   (source)
  • …the top tirely under his own power without Sherpa support or bottled oxygen. it was an exceedingly ambitious goal, but Kropp had the pull it off: he'd been on six previous Himalayan expeditions credentials to o Oyu, and K2 and had made solo ascents of Broad Peak7 Ch was robbed by the 8,000-mile bike ride to Kathmandu, he During in Romanian schoolchildren and assaulted by a crowd in Pakistan, broke a baseball bat over Kropp's (fortuIran, an irate motorcyclist of nately) helmeted head.†   (source)
  • If we came down on them they'd usually either give up or head right back to the border and into Pakistan, where we could not follow them.†   (source)
  • I thought her roommate was Pakistani.†   (source)
  • In the nineteenth century, they fought the British to the verge of surrender and then drove them back into Pakistan.†   (source)
  • They had money to zigzag through the bazaar on scooters, but since they were, like Arvind-prar and Hari-prar, farmers' sons, we assumed the money for scooters came from smuggling liquor and guns in and out of Pakistan.†   (source)
  • She and Abdullah had married in Pakistan in the late 1970s, they have told Idris, after the communist takeover back home.†   (source)
  • Two young Indian or Pakistani men and two Chinese or Japanese women on the cover were standing under palm trees, smiling in their white shirts.†   (source)
  • Despite a lot of very angry tribal chiefs, Baluchistan is part of Pakistan and has been since the partition with India in 1947.†   (source)
  • Iqbal had told this old friend that when he was in Pakistan, he had been receiving money from his older brother who lived in northern California.†   (source)
  • True Pakistanis are Punjabis, like us.†   (source)
  • That put us due south of the Iranian border seaport of Gavater, where the Pakistan frontier runs down to the ocean.†   (source)
  • Imagine how my family felt, coming all the way from Pakistan, only to get off the bus and find this thing on our land.†   (source)
  • The slightest noise, any betrayal of our position, someone would open fire on us, often from the Pakistan side of the border, where we could not go.†   (source)
  • He would tune in to the Pakistani radio broadcasts from Lahore, and listen for their Punjabi-language shows.†   (source)
  • After they'd had me, my parents, who'd met back in Pakistan when they were both around forty, had decided against tempting fate a second time.†   (source)
  • That they are cousins, that their families fled after the Soviets rolled in, that they spent a year in Pakistan before settling in California in the early eighties.†   (source)
  • To date in her year in America, Nirmala had exhausted the available stock of Hindi films on tape and was now renting Urdu films from a Pakistani store.†   (source)
  • My main worry was they might decide to shoot me or tie me up and march me off somewhere, maybe over the border to Pakistan, to film me and then cut off my head on camera.†   (source)
  • And if they managed to make it into the village and hit the house I was staying in, I'd be lucky to fend them off and avoid a short trip to Pakistan for publicity and execution.†   (source)
  • In Pakistan.†   (source)
  • At least, it's as safe as anything can be in this strange, wild country, which is kind of jammed into a triangle among Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.†   (source)
  • So my father said we might as well go home and restart, now that the Taliban had run to the Pakistani side of the border anyway.†   (source)
  • The Pakistanis shut down the camp.†   (source)
  • Our briefing, like everything associated with Team 10, was top of the line, a kind of grim educational lecture on what was happening up on the northwest frontier, which divides Afghanistan and Pakistan.†   (source)
  • No one regarded us as rookies; we were all fully trained SEALs, ready for action, ready to get up there into those mountain passes and help slow the tide of armed warrior tribesmen moving back across the border from Pakistan.†   (source)
  • These tribesmen drove their way over sixteen-thousand-foot mountains, seeking help from the disgruntled Baluchistan chiefs, who were now bored sideways by Pakistan and Afghanistan, Great Britain, Iran, the U.S.A., Russia, and anyone else who tried to tell them what to do.†   (source)
  • The problem was, the Pakistani government has obvious sympathy with the Taliban, and as a result leaves the border area in the northeast uncontrolled.†   (source)
  • In the subsequent years, they drifted together on the other side of the Pakistani border, reformed, and began their counteroffensive to retake Afghanistan.†   (source)
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