Word: pakistani
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...Bush is trying to drive now is having to make some unscheduled stops. For all the expressions of solidarity following the attacks, locking in the partnerships needed for a full-scale assault required much more than kind words. The U.S. needed access to Omani and Uzbek air bases and Pakistani intelligence and Indian airspace. And while Administration critics, starting with Israel, warned that all these would come at a cost, the Bush Administration also sensed an opportunity. Officials saw a strategic opening, a chance for a new round of realpolitik, which might knit together the U.S., Russia, China and India...
...Pakistan and Afghanistan did not abate. Neither did the flood of starving refugees coming over the border from Afghanistan. The situation in Pakistan was already unstable: President Pervez Musharraf was taking huge risks for supporting the U.S. against the Taliban, and as a result had limited American access to Pakistani military bases. But the refugees were making a tense situation even worse. Though the U.S. had lifted economic sanctions against Pakistan and promised $50 million in U.S. aid, the unrest continued. Last week large crowds moved through the streets of Peshawar and Rawalpindi, burning effigies of Bush. "We grossly underestimate...
...flight in from Islamabad, people were glaring at me in open hostility - and that's never happened to me before in Pakistan. I avoided four scowling Taliban clerics, bearded and black turbaned, who were a few rows ahead of me on the flight. The Taliban think the Pakistanis are wimps and bad Muslims for giving in to the Americans. The Afghan ambassador was greeted recently by a Pakistani army brigadier who shrugged apologetically. "I know," the ambassador said witheringly. Your heart bleeds for us, but your lips are sewn shut...
...Later, I learned that the anti-American mob had torched several movie theaters, which have been showing "Desperado" and "Gladiator." They also burned down the U.N. offices because-well, who knows why. Maybe they didn't like the big blue lettering on the U.N. sign. Behind us, a few Pakistani MiG fighter jets were screaming back and forth across the sky, patrolling the Afghan border. The war was closing...
...lived in a bungalow on the airport grounds, and he collected birds: Amazonian parrots as bright as tropical fruit and doves with a smear of crimson on their breasts that looked as if they'd been shot through the heart. They fluttered around crazily every time one of the Pakistani MiG fighters screeched overhead...