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  • The Pakistani military issued a statement Tuesday identifying the man as Muhammad Ali Qasim Yaqub, alias Abu Sohaib al-Makki.

    Pakistan Arrests Senior Yemeni Al-Qaida Operative in Karachi 2011

  • Only five remain in Guantánamo: four footsoldiers who have not been classed as a threat since 2005 and their alleged leader, Ahmed Mohammed Yaqub, who has been downgraded from his 2008 high-risk assessment.

    Guantánamo Bay files: Obama grapples with fate of last 172 prisoners 2011

  • Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, Kambaksh's brother and a leading independent journalist in the region, has named government officials who extort money from locals in some articles, said Jean MacKenzie, country director of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.

    Update on Afghan student journalist who was sentenced to death 2008

  • Left in Kabul for Abd al-Rahman from Yaqub Khan's treasury, fall 1880.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, Kambaksh's brother and a leading independent journalist in the region, has named government officials who extort money from locals in some articles, said Jean MacKenzie, country director of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.

    Update on Afghan student journalist who was sentenced to death 2008

  • His brother, Yaqub Ibrahimi, is a well-known democratic-minded journalist who has reported on the crimes and brutalities of the warlords, and I believe Kambaksh was targeted by the authorities to silence his brother.

    A Woman Among Warlords Malalai Joya 2009

  • For now, Tucy lives "in extreme poverty in Hyderabad" and introduces himself as "The second son Yaqub Arifuddin Tucy, who in turn is the son of Laila Ummani," a great-granddaughter of Bahadur Shah Zafar, who had 49 sons and daughters.

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • Besides Chissano, candidates remaining are Afonso Dhlakama, leader of the Mozambique National Resistance - the former rebel group which is now Mozambique's main opposition party - and Yaqub

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1999

  • We have a channel through Yaqub Khan the Pakistani foreign minister that can most reliably assess the facts there and the real possibilities for progress.

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

  • I stood beside Zia and Yaqub Khan of Pakistan to show our unity in opposition to Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

    Turmoil and Triumph George P. Shultz 1993

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