Hints and tips:
...It was a visit to Iyyam’s maternal aunt and uncle’s house, in an area known as the Emirati neighbourhood in northwestern Khan Younis, that cost most of the immediate family their lives on November 3....
...Harking back to her MFA days at University of Massachusetts Amherst, Shamsie speaks fondly about one of the “great mentors” of her life, the Indian-born poet Agha Shahid Ali....
...The firm has won several tenders for UN projects in recent years, and works on an Agha Khan Foundation project in old Aleppo....
...Mr Khan’s government and Pearl’s parents have already appealed against the April order at the Supreme Court....
...“Malik Ameer Khan, vald Malik Ahmed Khan Tarair Marhoom,” he narrated, tracing the line of fathers. Somewhere, his voice cracked and wandered away, lost....
...Quetta’s 500,000 Shia are mostly Hazara, who trace their lineage to Genghis Khan’s invading Mongol armies....
...Abdul Khan, another parent, said “the values in this school just reflect the values of this community. There is nothing sinister happening”....
...“As long as I’ve looked at Morocco, I’ve never seen such fiscal problems,” said Raza Agha, chief economist for the Middle East and Africa at VTB Capital in London....
...“Bring back Ismail Khan and there will be peace,” he says....
...AKFED, an arm of the Agha Khan Development Network, aims to boost development as well as make a profit....
...Indeed, his replacement as vice-captain by Younis Khan earlier this year may well have been the tipping point....
...Most Afghans I knew were less troubled by Ismail Khan than by Gul Agha Shirzai, a minister and still de facto boss of Kandahar, who reputedly “married” a boy in a mock wedding; or by the allegedly drink-loving...
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