All 48 Uses of
Islamabad
in
I Am Malala
- 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.
p. 16.8Islamabad = the capital of Pakistan
- No one I knew had been to Islamabad.
p. 17.1
- 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.
p. 30.9
- 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.
p. 46.1
- 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.
p. 64.1
- They did not realize people from Islamabad or even Peshawar would think me very backward.
p. 64.4
- 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.
p. 88.3
- Even in Islamabad buildings collapsed.
p. 103.8
- 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.
p. 120.9
- The rest of Pakistan was preoccupied with something else—the Taliban had moved right into the heart of our nation's capital, Islamabad.
p. 125.9
- 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.
p. 126.1
- The women were from Jamia Hafsa, the biggest female madrasa in our country and part of Lal Masjid—the Red Mosque in Islamabad.
p. 126.1
- Around the same time as our Taliban were emerging in Swat, the girls of the Red Mosque madrasa began terrorizing the streets of Islamabad.
p. 126.9
- It was almost unbelievable—Islamabad is usually a quiet orderly place, very different from the rest of our country.
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- 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.
p. 139.9
- There were suicide bombings all over the country: even the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad had been blown up.
p. 144.8
- 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.
p. 149.7
- 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.
p. 150.2
- Her name was Shiza Shahid and she came from Islamabad.
p. 163.2
- Adam took us to Islamabad.
p. 163.4
- Islamabad was a beautiful place with nice white bungalows and broad roads, though it has none of the natural beauty of Swat.
p. 163.5
- 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?"
p. 163.9
- 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?"
p. 163.9
- The visit to Islamabad had been a lovely break, but this was my reality now.
p. 164.9
- 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.
p. 165.3
- A woman filmmaker in Islamabad got hold of it and it was shown on Pakistan TV over and over, and then around the world.
p. 170.6
- "Now wait, we are coming to Islamabad," he shouted.
p. 172.8
- They streamed into Buner, the next district to the southeast of Swat and only sixty-five miles from Islamabad.
p. 173.9
- 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.
p. 181.1
- 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.
p. 183.9
- 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.
p. 193.9
- Islamabad was totally different from Swat.
p. 194.9
- It was as different for us as Islamabad is from New York.
p. 194.9
- We drove to Islamabad's twin city of Rawalpindi to see him in his office.
p. 195.4
- On the last day we all had to give a speech at the Islamabad Club about our experiences in the valley under Taliban rule.
p. 196.8
- We had enjoyed a glimpse of a different life in Islamabad.
p. 196.9
- Our friend Shiza and some of the activists we had met in Islamabad came to Mingora and distributed lots of money.
p. 202.4
- The previous October, the World Food Program office in Islamabad had been bombed and five aid workers were killed.
p. 203.8
- 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.
p. 208.9
- It took weeks of back and forth between Washington and Islamabad, or rather army headquarters in Rawalpindi, before the case was finally resolved.
p. 210.6
- 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.
p. 215.2
- 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.
p. 218.8
- Late on Wednesday night two military doctors who were intensive care specialists had arrived by road from Islamabad.
p. 262.1
- Other times I am in a lot of places, in Jinnah Market in Islamabad, in Cheena Bazaar, and I am shot.
p. 282.8
- Within ten minutes my father was told arrangements would be made for them to move to Islamabad later that day.
p. 284.2
- They were moved to Kashmir House in Islamabad, a hostel for members of parliament.
p. 284.4
- 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.
p. 285.3
- Foreigners who want to visit have to get a No Objection Certificate from the authorities in Islamabad.
p. 313.1
Definition:
the capital of Pakistan in the north on a plateau