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In a dramatic move, Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah drove to the Martyrs' Graveyard this morning, resisted ...
Mastrogiacomo, Naqshbandi, and their driver, 25-year-old Sayed Agha, were nabbed March 5 on an open stretch of road in the southern province of Helmand. Agha, a father of four, was killed soon after.
Last weekend, Afghan interpreter Ajmal Naqshbandi was murdered by the Taliban. He, an Italian journalist and their driver had been kidnapped a month ago. The driver was beheaded shortly after the ...
Areej Naqshbandi is a Senior Director and Head of the Project Management Office in the Public Investment Fund (PIF).She is an expert in enterprise portfolio management office having worked at ...
The death of a young Afghani hired by Western journalists is removed from the newspaper margins and put front and center in docu helmer Ian Olds' unflinching "Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi." ...
As unsettling and complex as the country it traverses, “Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi,” Ian Olds’s stunning documentary, swings between events surrounding that murder and footage ...
But the Naqshbandi are also a uniquely Central Asian Islamic group. Bahauddin Naqshband was born in 1318 in a village near the ancient Silk Road of Bukhara, in current-day Uzbekistan.
A senior Sunni cleric in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchistan, who disclosed the alleged rape of a 15-year-old girl by a local police commander, has been summoned to a ...
On 30 May, Simon Stjernholm will publicly defend his thesis Lovers of Muhammad: A Study of Naqshbandi-Haqqanis Sufis in the Twenty-First Century.
Douri and the Naqshbandi kept a low profile after Hussein’s fall, until he was hung by Shia militiamen on December 30, 2006. Thereafter Douri took full command, publicly announcing the ...
Nation contributor Christian Parenti describes the relationship between a fixer and a Western reporter in a haunting documentary about the kidnapping of his fixer in Afghanistan.