Word: pakistani
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...gathering of newspaper editors that the best he can do is choose the path of least destruction for Pakistan. In Pakistani-U.S.talks, neither side has raised any question of a payoff for Pakistan. "It would seem like we were putting a price on Osama's head," says a Pakistani official. In the short run, though, the U.S. plans to lift economic and military sanctions, and it may lean on the International Monetary Fund to release emergency funds and reschedule loans that Pakistan desperately needs...
...ugly side of fear never sleeps for long, and so Arab Americans and Muslims were attacked at their stores and homes. In Salt Lake City a small Pakistani restaurant, Curry in a Hurry, was damaged by arson. Word of the hate attack spread quickly, and the next day the place had its busiest day ever from patrons who wanted to support this Pakistani family and its business. People came with signs saying PEACE NOT HATE...
...young daughters are engrossed in a children's show on an Indian channel, giggling and bouncing to the thumping beat of Who Let the Dogs Out. The walls are filled with miniature art by Attiya's husband, colorful paintings that comment on the role of women in Pakistani society. Attiya, 43, is busy cooking lunch in the kitchen. Shelves are cluttered with family photos, art books, novels. It is a joyful home, bustling and alive...
...Brother and sister come from the same tiny village in Pakistan's rural Sind province and were raised by the same parents. But they have chosen two radically different paths. Attiya is a poet and women's rights activist. Unlike many Pakistani women, she married the man she loved, the painter Khuda Bux Abro, and is so unconcerned with the trappings of religion that acquaintances sometimes ask if she is even a Muslim. Attiya's thoroughly modern girls, aged 7 and 11, wear T shirts, jeans and short, sleeveless dresses and read Enid Blyton novels and the Guinness Book...
...late Sir James Goldsmith and the husband of Pakistani cricket hero turned politician Imran Khan, tried to tell the Western media about the terrible misery in the refugee camps where so many Afghans are forced to live. Nobody was interested. But they were very keen on a photo-shoot of beautiful, blond Jemima in her Pakistani clothes...