John Moore: Pakistan

  • View this image full size A Baloch guerrilla fires a rocket at a Pakistani military outpost, Jan. 29, 2006, near Kahan in the Pakistani province of Ballochistan. Marri tribesmen and fighters from the nearby Bugti tribe have been battling Pakistani forces in a long-simmering separatist movement. According to rebels, the Pakistani government takes Balochistan's vast natural resources but gives little in return. Balochistan is both the largest and the poorest province in Pakistan.
  • View this image full size Bugti guerrillas sit inside during a mortar attack on Jan. 24, 2006 in Dera Bugti, the province of Balochistan, Pakistan. The tribesmen have been battling Pakistani forces in a long-simmering separatist movement.
  • View this image full size A slain Pakistani soldier, whose body was beheaded, lies on the ground where he was shot by Taliban militants days earlier on Oct. 30, 2007 in the village of Manglour in the Swat Valley, Pakistan. The scenic Swat Valley, now rife with Islamic militancy, was once one of Pakistan's most popular tourist areas.
  • View this image full size Baloch villagers gather after returning to the town of Kahan on Feb. 1, 2006 in the Pakistani province of Balochistan. The villagers, all from the Marri tribe, said that they had fled the town during three days of Pakistani shelling of the community in mid-January, but have returned after weeks of quiet there. Marri tribesmen and fighters from the nearby Bugti tribe have been battling Pakistani forces in a long-simmering separatist movement.
  • View this image full size A Bugti shaman examines the lines on a goat's shoulder bone in a Baloch tribal method of predicting the future while in the mountains near the city of Dera Bugti in the Balochistan province of Pakistan on Jan. 23, 2006. Bugti and Marri tribesmen revolted against Pakistani authority in a separatist movement over control of the province's natural resources.
  • View this image full size A Baloch guerrilla loads a rocket launcher on to the back of a camel after spending the night in the mountains near Kahan in the Pakistani province of Balochistan on Jan. 30, 2006. Rebels and Pakistani forces have been battling over the province's natural resources.
  • View this image full size Baloch tribespeople flee violence on the back of a tractor, Feb. 3, 2006, in the Dera Bugti valley of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. Continued fighting between Bugti guerrillas and Pakistani paramilitary forces drove tens of thousands of people from their homes in the Dera Bugti area of Balochistan, the poorest province of Pakistan.
  • View this image full size Protesters throw a case of soft drinks during a violent demonstration on Aug. 29, 2006 in Quetta, Pakistan. More than a thousand angry Baloch took to the streets following a prayer service for slain tribal leader Nawab Bugti, who died in a clash with Pakistani army troops over the weekend. The mob torched buildings and cars and looted stores before police scattered them with tear gas and warning shots.
  • View this image full size A Pakistani Army soldier stands guard at a base in Miram Shah, Feb. 17, 2007, in the tribal area of North Waziristan, Pakistan. NATO and the Afghan government say that Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters cross into Afghanistan from the Pakistani side to stage attacks on NATO troops.
  • View this image full size An injured man is wheeled into Pakistan as motorcyclists ride into Afghanistan on the border crossing at Chaman-Spin Boldak on June 18, 2006. While some form of identification is usually required to enter Pakistan, thousands of people cross into Afghanistan daily, without any form of ID required.
  • View this image full size An American soldier holds a U.S. Army hand grenade on which a soldier wrote "One free trip to Allah" while at an observation post on the Pakistan border in the Paktika province of Afghanistan, Oct. 20, 2006. The outpost, just a few hundred yards from Pakistan, is frequently attacked by Taliban forces, many of whom cross over from the North Waziristan tribal area of Pakistan, according to American soldiers.
  • View this image full size A turbaned Afghan villager passes by as U.S. Army soldiers search for Taliban, October 18, 2006, very near the border with Pakistan, in Torre, Afghanistan. The soldiers had been attacked by Taliban insurgents on the outskirts of the village only the week before.
  • View this image full size A U.S. Army soldier fires an 81mm mortar at a Taliban position near the Pakistan border, Oct. 24, 2006, from Camp Tillman in the Paktika province of eastern Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents fired rockets at the American outpost for the third day running, and the U.S. soldiers responded with mortars, critically wounding several Taliban, according to intercepted radio transmissions.
  • View this image full size A local Taliban militant contributes at a donation table for "mujahideen" in the village of Koza Bandi, Oct. 30, 2007, in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. Residents and militants donated cash, jewelry, blankets and foodstuffs in support of the anti-government fighters who controlled the area. The Pakistani army later drove out the militants from the area.
  • View this image full size Pakistani students at an Islamic studies school, or "madrassa," stand outside a gun-making shop adjacent to their classroom, Sept. 10, 2006, in the Sakhacot Tribal Area of western Pakistan. The Afghan government says that students at the religious schools often end up joining Taliban fighters and cross the border into Afghanistan to fight American, NATO and Afghan troops.
  • View this image full size Students at an Islamic studies school, or "madrassa," memorize verses of the Quran on Sept. 10, 2006 in the Sakhacot Tribal Area of western Pakistan. The Afghan government says that students at the religious schools often end up joining Taliban fighters and cross the border into Afghanistan to fight American, NATO and Afghan troops.
  • View this image full size A pamphlet for sale entitled "Renouncing Sin" denounces the influences of Western satellite television, music, and board games at a "madrassa" or Islamic religious school, Sept. 9, 2006, in Peshawar, Pakistan. Other pamphlets on sale urged students to join the Taliban in the "jihad" against "infidel" or non-Muslim forces occupying Afghanistan. The word "Taliban" means student in Arabic and Urdu.
  • View this image full size A Pakistani madrassa student chants verses of the Quran during long hours of Islamic study on Aug. 4, 2005 in Multan, Pakistan. A million students in Pakistan study at madrassas, which provide free room and board.
  • View this image full size Would-be suicide bomber Hafiz Daoud, 21, sits in jail, Oct. 10, 2006, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Daoud, who had been living in Karachi, Pakistan, for the last 11 years, was arrested by Afghan police several weeks earlier. He said that he had crossed into Afghanistan from Pakistan to fight against "infidel" American forces and was given a suicide bomb vest by an Islamic extremists group in Kandahar. He claimed, however, that he had already decided not to go through with any attack when police detained him in Kabul.
  • View this image full size Tribal leaders from Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area meet with Pakistani Army officials in Miran Shah on Feb. 17, 2007. The elders have brokered peace deals between Taliban fighters and the Pakistani government in the last two years. NATO and American forces in Afghanistan say, however, that Taliban incursions into Afghanistan always increase dramatically with the deals.
  • View this image full size A painting outside a cinema is defaced to appease Taliban sensibilities in Mingora, Nov. 18, 2007, in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. Militants had taken control over most of the district. Many Islamic extremists believe that to depict a human face in artwork is blasphemous.
  • View this image full size Students at an Islamic madrassa chant anti-American slogans while burning thousands of DVDs, videos and music CDs, April 6, 2007, at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. The event, reminiscent of the early days of the Taliban in Afghanistan, took place within two kilometers of the Pakistani presidential palace, as well as the heavily-fortified U.S. Embassy.
  • View this image full size Students at an Islamic madrassa burn thousands of movie DVDs, videos and music CDs, April 6, 2007, at the Lal Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. The event, reminiscent of the early days of the Taliban in Afghanistan, took place within two kilometers of the Pakistani presidential palace, as well as the heavily-fortified U.S. Embassy. Clerics at the mosque, known as the most radical in Islamabad, maintained that movies and music are un-Islamic.
  • View this image full size A copy of "The Lion King" goes up in smoke as students at an Islamic madrassa burn thousands of videos, DVDs and music CDs, April 6, 2007, at the Red Mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan. Clerics at the mosque maintained that Western movies and music are un-Islamic.
  • View this image full size A T-shirt displaying the face of Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden hangs for sale at a clothing market, July 5, 2006, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Bin Laden, who many suspect of hiding out in the tribal areas of Pakistan, remains a hero to many in the Islamic world.
  • View this image full size Pakistani demonstrators hold anti-Bush posters during a protest on Jan. 20, 2006 in Peshawar, Pakistan. Several thousand demonstrators marched in protest of the U.S. airstrike on a Pakistani village almost a week before which killed more than a dozen civilians and possibly several Al Qaeda operatives.
  • View this image full size Pakistani boys stand along the arrival route of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Oct. 17, 2007, in Karachi, Pakistan. Bhutto arrived the following day after eight years in self-imposed exile, and survived a suicide bomb attack on her arrival procession.
  • View this image full size Children crouch in the ruins of their home as a storm moves down the valley on Nov. 11, 2005 in Rashang in the remote mountains of northern Pakistan. The Pakistani army encouraged earthquake survivors to evacuate the area before the onset of winter snows, but many people refused to leave their damaged homes and herds behind.
  • View this image full size Earthquake survivors watch as a much anticipated U.N. helicopter carrying food aid approaches, Nov. 11, 2005, in Rashang in the high-altitude Alai Valley of Pakistan.
  • View this image full size A father watches his son, Mohammed Javed, 38, suffer through the final stages of AIDS, Oct. 3, 2006, in Sialkot, Pakistan. He died two weeks later. Javed had contracted AIDS while working as a laborer in Dubai and after failing an HIV blood test was deported back to Pakistan. UNAIDS says the AIDS epidemic is exploding nationwide in Pakistan, where HIV testing in the general populace is rare, making effective treatment for most victims impossible.
  • View this image full size Malaika Salah, eight months pregnant, HIV positive and from the conservative Muslim tribal belt of western Pakistan, waits at a counseling center in Peshawar, Pakistan, March 9, 2006. Her husband, who died of AIDS the month before, had given her the disease after being deported back to Pakistan from Dubai, where he worked as a migrant laborer.
  • View this image full size Three-and-a-half-year-old Arzu Ronak and her mother Parveen, 34, both HIV positive, await a medical checkup at an AIDS support center in Lahore, Pakistan, on Oct. 3, 2006. Mother and child are both receiving anti-retroviral drugs and are currently in good health. Parveen contracted HIV from her husband, a Pakistani Army soldier who brought the disease back from a U.N. military deployment in Somalia in the early '90s.
  • View this image full size Saeed Khan, age 40 and HIV positive, speaks with one of his two wives, ages 32 and 16, both with HIV, in the courtyard of their village home on Feb. 28, 2006 in Badaber, in the conservative Pashtun belt of western Pakistan. They all receive anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) each month from a government treatment center.
  • View this image full size Saeed Khan, age 40 and HIV positive, enters the family dining room where his wives, ages 32 and 16, both with HIV, wait in their village home on Feb. 28, 2006 in Badaber in the conservative Pashtun belt of western Pakistan. Saeed contracted HIV while working as a laborer in the Middle East during the 1990s, from where he was deported back to Pakistan. Ignorant about the methods of transmission, he gave it to both his wives.
  • View this image full size HIV positive father Nazir Masih, 43, (L) watches his eldest son Samuel, 26, as he is blessed by a Catholic priest at his wedding on Nov. 11, 2006 in Lahore, Pakistan. Nazir receives anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs), and is now healthy, which made it possible for him to live to see his son get married. The introduction of ARVs to Pakistan has given many people with HIV longer, healthier lives.
  • View this image full size A drug addict smokes heroin under a bridge in Peshawar, Pakistan, on April 22, 2006. Peshawar, located near the Afghan border, has the cheapest heroin in the world, outside of Afghanistan, where more than 90 percent of it is produced. Impoverished addicts from across Pakistan often move to Peshawar because of the cheap price and high quality of the drug.
  • View this image full size A homeless Hindu man smokes after lighting a cigarette butt found on the street in Dera Bugti on Jan. 26, 2006 in the Pakistani province of Baluchistan. Baluchistan is the poorest province in Pakistan.
  • View this image full size A Pakistani policeman stands vigil during the spring Joshi festival of the polytheistic Kalash tribe, May 15, 2008, in the remote Chitral village of Rumbur in northwestern Pakistan. The Kalash people, who number about 4,000, claim to be descendants of Alexander the Great and worship their own gods. The tiny minority group, in a Muslim nation of more than 165 million people, holds the annual Joshi spring festival to bring good crops and honey to its agricultural communities.
  • View this image full size Mothers and children shield themselves during a sudden dust storm at the Joshi spring festival of the polytheistic Kalash tribe, May 15, 2008, in the remote Chitral village of Rumbur in northwestern Pakistan. The Kalesh are the remnants of the pre-Islamic culture called "Kafiristan," what the Muslims called "land of the unbelievers." They are connected to the rest of Pakistan by a single road, and lack phone service to the outside world.
  • View this image full size Girls watch as a boy collects garbage to recycle from a trash pile outside of their school, Oct. 11, 2007, in Mingora in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. Extreme poverty keeps many children from attending school in Pakistan.
  • View this image full size A market worker and an an attorney exchange glances during a protest against the decision by President Pervez Musharraf to call a state of emergency, Nov. 6, 2007, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • View this image full size President Pervez Musharraf (L) gives a farewell salute to Pakistani army troops while standing next to new army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani at a change of command ceremony on Nov. 28, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Under international and domestic pressure, Musharraf stepped down from his post as military commander a day before he was to be sworn in as a civilian president.
  • View this image full size A Pakistani policeman watches an anti-government protest on Nov. 4, 2007 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The government suspended Pakistan's constitution, arrested opposition leaders, sacked the chief justice of the Supreme Court and blacked out independent TV outlets as part of the emergency measures.
  • View this image full size Supporters of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf squeeze through a gate for a free meal at the ruling pro-Musharraf party headquarters in Islamabad, Pakistan, Oct. 6, 2007. They were given an "Iftar" meal by party officials to break their day-long Ramadan fast.
  • View this image full size Abdul Ghaffar, 70, rides his bicycle displaying a portrait of his missing son Abdul Sattar, 25, while passing in front of the Pakistani prime minister's Secretariat in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 30, 2007. He said that his son was abducted by Pakistani intelligence agents on Feb. 28, 2001. Families of the missing staged daily protests outside of the Supreme Court, accusing the government intelligence agencies of illegally detaining their family members, some of whom had ties to Islamic organizations.
  • View this image full size Pakistani lawyers cheer the arrival of suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry to a protest meeting, March 28, 2007, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Across the nation, Pakistan was rocked by lawyers' protests since Chaudhry's removal, which many in Pakistan saw as a bid by Musharraf to control the judiciary.
  • View this image full size Civil society protesters and lawyers hold a candlelight vigil for the release of political prisoners still detained under President Musharraf's emergency rule, Dec. 7, 2007, in Islamabad, Pakistan.
  • View this image full size In a traditional display of disrespect, Pakistani opposition party members show the bottom of their shoes towards the presidential palace, April 3, 2007, in Islamabad, Pakistan. Thousands of opposition party protesters and lawyers rallied outside the Supreme Court in support of the suspended chief justice.
  • View this image full size An anti-government protester is detained and beaten by police, Nov. 9, 2007, in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. A heavy police presence in the garrison city thwarted a planned mass demonstration by supporters of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Small groups of protesters, however, clashed with police throughout the afternoon.
  • View this image full size Supporters of former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif set off fireworks and dance after Sharif's arrival on a flight from Saudi Arabia, Nov. 25, 2007, to Lahore, Pakistan. Sharif, deposed and sent into exile eight years ago by President Pervez Musharraf, was greeted by thousands of supporters along a procession route through Lahore.
  • View this image full size A lone cyclist passes political banners for candidates from the opposition party Pakistan Muslim League-N, Feb. 19, 2008, in Lahore, Pakistan. The opposition parties ousted the ruling pro-Musharraf party and formed a coalition to rule the new parliament.
  • View this image full size A portrait of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto looks on as Pakistanis walk past her damaged vehicle a day after two deadly bomb blasts killed more than 140 people in her arrival procession, Oct. 19, 2007, in Karachi, Pakistan. She had returned to Pakistan from eight years of exile to lead her Pakistan People's Party in upcoming elections.
  • View this image full size Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto sits on stage at a campaign rally shortly before she was assassinated in a bomb attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Dec. 27, 2007. The opposition leader had returned two months before after eight years in exile, to lead her Pakistan People's Party in scheduled elections.
  • View this image full size Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto addresses thousands of supporters at a campaign rally minutes before she was assassinated on Dec. 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. She spoke about the need to rid the nation of terrorism.
  • View this image full size Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto waves from her armored car just seconds before being attacked and killed on Dec. 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
  • View this image full size A suicide bomber sets off his explosive charge next to the vehicle of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, 2007 following a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
  • View this image full size Survivors flee a bomb attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The opposition leader was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack, which also killed 20 of her supporters near her vehicle.
  • View this image full size A survivor grieves at the site of the assassination attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Dec. 27, 2007, following a campaign rally in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
  • View this image full size A survivor awaits evacuation shortly after a suicide bomb attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Dec. 27, 2007.
  • View this image full size A poster of assassinated former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto lies next to bomb blast victims covered in flags of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party on Dec. 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
  • View this image full size A survivor is overcome with emotion at the site of a suicide bomb attack on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Dec. 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. The gun and bomb attack killed Bhutto and another 20 of her supporters.
  • View this image full size A supporter of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto holds his hands out in prayer over a mound of rose petals covering Bhutto's coffin at the Bhutto family mausoleum, Dec. 29, 2007, in Garhi Khuda Buksh, Pakistan. Bhutto was assassinated two days before while leaving a campaign rally, sparking days of rioting and leaving the nation in a state of shock.
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