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...Mohammed Zaki Bashir, the chief executive of Gul Ahmed Textile Mills, notes that only a few of his customers are brave enough to come to Karachi....
...“In the past, local councils voted on the budget, but the Wali [the governor appointed by the King] had to sign on the spending,” says Mr Sadiki....
...The provincial wali, or governor, oversees collection by a local Zakat Council, residents who work for the group say....
...Loudspeakers played celebratory music, including songs by Mohammed Assaf, the Gaza-born winner of the popular TV show “Arab Idol”....
...“The ground shook and everyone started to run,” said Abdul Wali, 25, a hardware shop owner whose gaping glass storefront was still covered with a blanket on Monday....
...Ahmed Wali was charming to visitors and terrifying to his enemies, and his word was law in the southern Kandahar province – until just after 11am on Tuesday, when Sardar Mohammed stepped into his office...
...Mr Karzai suffered a further loss in his inner circle five days later when gunmen killed Jan Mohammed Khan, the former governor of the southern Uruzgan province and a major power-broker....
...Atta Mohammed Noor, the powerful governor of the northern Balkh province, issued a stark warning to the Taliban in a video message after Mr Rabbani’s murder....
...Resentment of the power wielded by Ahmed Wali Karzai, the president’s half-brother and powerful chairman of Kandahar’s provincial council, runs deep....
...The insurgency has been fuelled by the rise of Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of Afghan president Hamid Karzai, who has used his position as chairman of the provincial council to emerge as a dominant...
...Mohammed Omar, the governor of Kunduz, told the Financial Times by telephone that the Taliban had stolen the vehicles, which exploded as villagers gathered near a river-bank in the middle of the night to...
...” Wali Shah, another elder, nodded his agreement. “We have leaders, they should talk to the Taliban,” he said....
...Armed with a belt-fed PK machinegun, Mr Gulbuddin climbed a set of stairs to a rooftop where he shot his commander, Mohammed Momen, in the leg....
...Additional reporting by James Blitz and Ahmad Wali Sarhadi...
...Additional reporting by Ahmad Wali Sarhadi...
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