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...But by launching a barrage of drones, Iran’s aim was to overwhelm Israel’s multi-layered air defence so its missiles could penetrate the system,” said Hamid-Reza Taraghi, a conservative Iranian politician...
...Ahmad Dastmalchian, Iran’s former ambassador to Lebanon, said Tehran was adopting “smart crisis management” in biding its time....
...Abdul-Hamid has previously called for religious “freedom” and an end to “ethnic discrimination” in the country....
...Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai is unlikely to play a prominent role in a Taliban-led government, while veteran politician Abdullah Abdullah is viewed as the “least controversial” option by the...
...Former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai and veteran politician Abdullah Abdullah did not secure roles in the new government, despite holding extensive talks with the Taliban leadership....
...The group is in talks with politicians such as Hamid Karzai, the former president, amid speculation that he and other non-Taliban leaders could participate in the new administration....
...Another member of the family, Ahmad Massoud, Ahmad Shah Massoud’s son, has called for international support to take on the Taliban in the wake of the US military withdrawal....
...Other political leaders, including Hamid Karzai, the former Afghan president, are holding talks with senior Taliban officials to form a power-sharing government....
...Ayatollah Ahmad Alamolhoda, 76, banned concerts in Mashhad and has said that women have no right to cycle in the city....
...He had abandoned it because the Shomali had become a battleground between the Taliban and the forces of Ahmad Shah Massoud, the last of the mujahideen leaders still resisting their takeover....
...But the question asked by another college friend remained unanswered: “Does it make me a traitor to my country if I can’t give up my love for Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s poetry, or the novels of Mohsin Hamid and Fatima...
...guembri in a metallic dust-storm of percussion, cellist Rob Lewis enthralling a hushed tent, and Aeham Ahmad....
...During their meal, Zardari commented: “Ahmad knows everything I think and everything I say . . . I walk into my office every morning and say, ‘Hello Ahmad’!”...
...“Only God knows how long I’ll wait,” says Hamid Hagadust, a Tajik from Afghanistan who had been on the island for six months. “My roommate has money but no papers....
...The other six men named in the indictment are Ahmad Fathi, Amin Shokohi, Sadegh Ahmadzadegan, Omid Ghaffarinia, Sina Keissar and Nader Saedi....
...Three years on, they installed Hamid Karzai as president, planted a western-style democracy in the unpromising soil of Afghanistan’s tribal politics and set about trying to modernise the country’s economy...
...“It was beyond our imagination,” said Hamid, a restaurant owner. He was wading through the streets and pulling a makeshift raft of inflated truck-tyre inner tubes loaded with rice and milk....
...Mr Abdullah blames widespread fraud on his defeat to President Hamid Karzai in 2009 and, along with Mr Ghani, has warned of more possible ballot-rigging this time....
...Hamid Karzai, the departing president, has refused to sign the deal to allow the foreign troops to stay....
...“When I go to the bazaar, the only thing I hear is people worrying,” says Qabir Ahmad Raheel, a 54-year-old former district governor who has seen the neighbourhood economy rise and fall....
...The poll has turned into a three-way fight to succeed President Hamid Karzai, who took power shortly after the US invasion and is constitutionally barred from standing for a third elected term....
...But its vague provisions mean that successive political leaders were “given free rein over the employment or neglect of Islam as a political tool”, says Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, associate professor at Universiti...
...March 17 • Malaysian authorities reveal that the final message “all right, good night” was spoken by the co-pilot Fariq Ab Hamid....
...“Initial investigation suggests it was the co-pilot who spoke,” Mr Ahmad told a daily news conference. The co-pilot is Fariq Ab Hamid, a 27-year old Malaysian who joined the airline in 2007....
...Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani, national election commission head, estimated turnout at 58 per cent, in a poll that the international donors who are funding almost all its $129m cost are desperate to see go well...
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