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...Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a fundamentalist old warlord, took to Facebook to pronounce the women prostitutes. Arifa, a yoga instructor, is unfazed by the fuss....
...This remarkable venture is recorded in a touching book, A Night In The Emperor’s Garden by Qais Akbar Omar and Stephen Landrigan....
...Then the head chef, 36-year-old Abdul Kadir, begins the most important job of the day: making the “base sauce”....
...Reached by telephone in Iraq, Zuhair Ali Akbar, deputy governor of Iraq’s central bank, twice refused to confirm or deny whether the money had been stolen....
...“Allah akbar!”, or “God is great”, the young men angrily chanted as they beat hasty retreats ahead of a long afternoon of street combat....
...Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran’s foreign minister, sharply criticised his peers for voting to suspend Syria from the OIC....
...As people expressed their horror at what was happening and typed in the opposition battlecry “Allahu Akbar”, a pro-regime user weighed in with “May Bashar [sic] army kick your asses”....
...Abdul Malik Baloch, president of the Baluchistan National party, said: “All the proceeds from the gas have to come to Baluchistan.”...
...To the king’s right was a beaming Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al al-Sheik, Saudi Arabia’s top Sunni religious leader, while to his left was Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president of Shia Iran....
...One minute, I was just one of the crowd, waiting to catch a glimpse of my president, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The next minute I had to try to save his life....
...But Ayatollah Khamenei was persuaded to sanction a conditional welcome, he said, by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the former president, Ali Larijani, the top security official, and Hassan Rowhani, the former...
...The visit to Riyadh last week by Mohammad-Reza Baqeri, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, follows talks in December between Ali Akbar Velayati, the envoy of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Saudi...
...Akbar Ahmed, the distinguished Pakistani academic, draws comparisons to the Aligarh Muslim University, the institution originally known as the Mohammedan Anglo Oriental College....
...“There are 110 hectares of pistachios he has four of them,” says Abdul-Mahdi Ansari, the city's governor and a relative by marriage....
...General Abdul Fatah, head prosecutor for the Afghan security directorate, said the ringleader, General Mohammad Akbar, had ties to the former Taliban regime....
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