Word: orakzai
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...Rose to assume command over the Khyber, Kurram and Orakzai tribal regions in Northwest Pakistan, where he moved to implement a stricter version of Islamic...
...convened a meeting with Western journalists at an undisclosed location in Orakzai, at which he assailed Pakistan?s President, Asif Ali Zardari, for kowtowing to U.S. interests. The meeting, during which he posed next to a U.S. Humvee stolen from a military convoy, cemented his reputation as a rising star within the Taliban...
...only ones: aid workers, Japanese and Lebanese journalists, a senior civil servant from Islamabad, and a few tribal elders were all waiting, too. All of us were sitting in straight-backed chairs along the wall like humble supplicants in an Ottoman court, while the Home Secretary, Azmat Hanif Orakzai, fielded phone calls from the governor and the garrison commander. He put the phone down and eyed us three newcomers, while twisting the end of his mustache. Suddenly, TIME photographer Alexandra Boulat, who happens to be a willowy French woman, stood up and said: "Sir, I'm fed up of bouncing...