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...favorite subjects (science and geography) from the curriculum, she answers. But as she talks, what emerges is a general hopelessness and resentment of a faceless bureaucratic system. On pressure to bring up test scores, for example, she says: "It doesn't matter that the kid is a Pakistani, and his home life is bad and he can't read English." Feeling she can neither help her students nor please the administration depresses her and makes her defensive and cynical-about the school and herself. Says she: "The good teachers have all quit to save their sanity. I hate...
...mood of the Islamic ministers, who represented 39 nations and the Palestine Liberation Organization, has changed considerably since they met in the Pakistani capital last January. The final resolution of that conference attacked the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a "flagrant violation" of international law. The muted resolution adopted by last week's conference called for a Soviet troop withdrawal, but it also kowtowed to the Kremlin by urging a reasoned "political" approach to the problem...
Islamic law holds "unequivocally that the restriction of the physical freedom of any human is forbidden, except where that human is personally involved in crime," Ismail R. al Faruqi wrote last January in the Pakistani Muslim journal Universal Message. "The employees of any embassy do not fall in this category." Envoys who misbehave cannot be imprisoned, only expelled or fined to pay for any property damage. He also says the imprisonment violates the Koran's declaration that "no soul can be charged with the sins of another...
...want to leave. Feigned illness of a spouse requiring treatment abroad (particularly in Pakistan or India) is one ploy. Others who have dependents without passports have escaped in more daring ways. Taxis with cramped, hidden compartments built under back seats have smuggled some from Jalalabad or Kandahar to the Pakistani frontier...
Naby said Wednesday the crew abandoned plans to interview Afghan refugees in Pakistani camps and hospitals when one Freedom Fighter commander befriended the team and helped them cross the border. He escorted them 50 to 75 miles to Jalalabad, the second largest city in Afghanistan, and to the Kumar Valley, the scene of heavy fighting...