Khan Club Hotel Peshawar

... the story on the bus driver - m explained to him, because he didn't speak English but he proudly told everyone he spoke to about my 'origins' and made sure I was happy throughout the journey, giving me food and putting me in a rickshaw at the other end! My bus journey took me down the motorway, past rows of tanks in a big military base and into the North West Frontier Province (NWFP), to Peshawar near the Afghanistan ...

... surgeon Dr William Brydon limped into the garrison at Jalalabad on a half dead pony, the only officer to carry the British shame and disaster back to the empire. I have had some hairy moments in my past and been to some dodgy places like Democratic Republic of Congo and Burundi (also with a number of conflicts & two of the poorest countries in the world) but nothing quite prepares you for the most famous and strategically important mountain passes in ...

... la proximité de l'Afghanistan et des zones tribales.   zones tribales du Pakistan regroupent la quasi-totalité de la frontière pakistano-afghane et ont un statut assez particulier : ici les lois du gouvernement Pakistanais ne s'appliquent pas et la police Pakistanaise n'a en fait pas le droit d'y ...

... were moving in on this area the day after, but Im sure from the pictures I have put on, your can use your imagination!) The tribal areas or the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) consists of 7 agencies nominally controlled by Islamabad. Despite being sovereign Pakistani soil the agencies are controlled by tribal chiefs or by Loya Jirgas (groups of tribal elders). Various empires have marched through the area that is now the marked as FATA but ...

... production/trade of both weapons and drugs, fueling conflicts and terrorism in the region. And not even the Americans seem able to do anything about it. Before I came here I was the given the contact of a local guide who apparently could take me and my friends (Gladys, Wang and Mark) to see the city's interesting "sites" at a reasonable price. So here we went... On the first day he took us for a tour of the old city and Peshawar's main bazaars. And ...

... against each other, but the third was a free for all with 4 or more combatants in the middle of a big crowd. It's Ramadaz and people get irritable from fasting all day. You never know what will set them off. Then there are the religious wackos blowing up girls' schools and attacking women teachers. Even barbershops are being blown up because they shave men's beards. There is also the geo-political motivated violence in the tribal border areas ...

... son at the command of God. When Abraham brought his son to Mount Moriah, as God commanded, he prepared to kill his son. His son, just like the offering Abel gave to God, was a true offering and sacrifice, but one that was considered immoral. Since God willed it, however, God's will took precedence over earthly morality, and Abraham prepared to kill his son, with full faith in God, blind faith as Kierkegaard would say in Fear and Trembling ...

... they sang with tremolo, with faith, in notes both conveying both minor and major tones. The muezzin would sing into their microphones, broadcast through minaret speakers, creating a cadence, holding a note, descending in a cascade, then rising again. I set my alarm for 4 am the next day, which according to Bahadar Khan, the Tourist Inn Motel proprietor, would give me thirty minutes to eat and drink before the first daily fast began. Bahadar Khan ...

... 11. "Afghanistan and Iraq, part of America," he said. "Pakistan also, perhaps." He is not the only one who feels that America is now an empire extending to these three countries and that Musharraf, who is a dictator of sorts, is its puppet. At the same time, though, many people do, it seems, like Musharraf, who was recently "re-elected" via electorates (not voting) as I write this one month later. Time will tell. For the first full day in ...

... der leer ist wird er trotzdem nicht besetzt, auch wenn bei den Maennern Platzangst herrscht, solange da noch eine Frau im Bus rumlungert Da alles was mit Frauen und Eros zu tun hat verboten ist im Kino und Fernsehen (sorry fuer die Satzstruktur), gibt es im Kino nur noch Filme ala Rambo und Fernsehen wird indisch geschaut...vom KLASSENFEIND! was beweist...das sind hier auch nur Menschen... 20.02.05, Peshawar, Pakistan Hier ...