Word: farooq
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...minute amateur video of the mummy, with a 1990 date stamp, featured close-ups of its gold crown and breastplate. The asking price: $10 million. The possession of antiquities older than 50 years is a crime in Pakistan, as is their forgery; Karachi's deputy superintendent of police, Muhammad Farooq Awan, arrested the video's distributor, who led police to Quetta, Baluchistan's rugged provincial capital. There, Awan and his team raided the home of Wali Muhammad Reeki, a powerful tribal chief who keeps two pet camels on his estate and has a taste for their milk. Reeki took...
...through which India made secret overtures to the Hurriyat leaders in Srinagar and Kashmiri insurgents inside India and Pakistan, often through contacts in the Middle East. Mishra insisted that intelligence agencies brief him directly on all operations in Kashmir. He sidelined Kashmir's top elected official, Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah, a figure whose political power rests more on his late father Sheikh Abdullah's reputation as a Kashmiri patriot than on popular support...