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HERAT A hero of the anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban resistance, Tajik ISMAIL KHAN, loyal to the Jamiat party, is Afghanistan's most powerful warlord, commanding 15,000 men, the country's largest semiautonomous force...
Zafran Bibi's case is especially complex. Her husband Naimat Khan, who until last year was in jail on a murder charge, claims that his own father forced Zafran Bibi to make the rape accusation against a man with whom the father was feuding. Later she changed her story and accused her brother-in-law, who was never charged. Khan says his wife actually became pregnant after a conjugal visit to him in jail. "It will be justice if my wife is handed back to me," says Khan...
...slashing red line. Some placards accused him of slaughtering the innocents of Afghanistan under the pretext of fighting terrorism and of preparing for the incineration of Iraq in "Phase II." You might have thought it was not the American President flying in for a chat, but Genghis Khan and Mussolini rolled into one. So much for the theatrics of globalized protest as perfected in Seattle, Prague and Genoa. But there is much more to the drama. Here are some numbers. Total defense expenditure in the world is around $800 billion. The U.S. is good for $331 billion of that, meaning...
...happened to her. "It is a horrible story of manipulations by her family, lawyers, police and even by the court," says Afrasiab Khattak, chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, which estimates that a woman is raped every two hours in the country. Zafran Bibi's husband, Naimat Khan, claims his own father used Zafran Bibi to settle a score with another villager. Khan, who until last year was in jail himself on a murder rap, says his father forced Zafran Bibi to make the rape accusation against a man who had refused to marry one of the elder...
...aware of the law but I have complete trust in almighty Allah," says husband Khan, waiting with his two little boys, as temperatures reached 37?C, to visit his wife at the Kohat prison where she remains incarcerated along with the baby girl she gave birth to seven months ago. Khan says Zafran Bibi actually became pregnant after a conjugal visit to him in jail, an assertion that, if accepted by a court, could clear his wife of the adultery charge, though not the shame of the whole affair. "It will be justice for me if my wife is handed...