Kiran Nazish

@kirannazish

Journalist + Founding Director | Previously Stanley Knowles Distinguished Professor | Senior Fellow | Middle East, South Asia.

Canada
Joined February 2009

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    4 hours ago

    On Sep11, who suffered the MOST in the , are demanding attention in countries, their family being hunted by Taliban back home. blood was shed in a war led by the west. Their pleas should be a major prominent part of 9/11 coverage. But it isn’t!

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    12 hours ago

    Remember all the Afghans, Iraqi, Sudanese, Pakistanis, Mauritanians, Yemeni, Syrians and Americans.

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    1 hour ago

    20 yrs ago I walked into a bit early. said: Start writing. I remember deleting “planes hit towers,” typing “towers destroyed”: the lede of an older-school “EXTRA!” Most of the rest of my life I’ve spent following up.

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    Sep 4

    Please share widely this humanitarian calling for no matter what position/belief you have concerning the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban. It is cruel and inhuman morally and deadly otherwise, to witness mass number of innocent people dying for lack of basic needs.

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    5/8 I didn’t see footage of 9/11 until 2010, after 8 years of solitary confinement. I wept for the innocent people who died. I wept for the wars fought. I wept because my captors believed I was capable of such an atrocious act. I wept for all victims of war on terror.

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    2/8 I wept for all the innocent lives that lost since 2001. I never could have imagined that this tragedy would be used to justify keeping me and hundreds of others locked up and tortured for nearly 15 years.

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    1/8 20 years ago, I heard about 9/11 on the radio in Afghanistan. At 18, I couldn’t imagine buildings so tall or why someone would kill so many people. Soon after, I was sold to the US & sent to . 8 years later, when I saw video of 9/11 for the first time,

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    People ask how I could cold-bloodedly photograph someone dying. I never saw it that way. I made a photographic record of someone living the last moments of his life. And every time I look at it, I see him alive. -- photographer Richard Drew

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    2 hours ago

    10 yrs ago I covered the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque.” Here’s on demonization of her brother’s plan for a downtown Islamic center modeled on Upper W Side’s Jewish Community Center & what’s missing from apology—>

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  10. 4 hours ago

    On Sep11, who suffered the MOST in the , are demanding attention in countries, their family being hunted by Taliban back home. blood was shed in a war led by the west. Their pleas should be a major prominent part of 9/11 coverage. But it isn’t!

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    Sep 10

    : Reporter for , was verbally and physically attacked alongside her crew while covering a protest. Those present at the demonstration hurled stones at them and demanded they halt coverage. condemns the incident.

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    10 hours ago

    Three young girls were killed in the strike, according to their family: Hayat, 2, Somaya, 3, and Malika, 3. Family photo collage by the Independent. 7, 8, 9/10

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    12 hours ago

    Here are Benyamin, 6, and Arwin, 7. They were the sons of Zemari's brother Romal. I was shown a picture of Benyamin's badly burned body. 5 & 6/10

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    Farzad was 10 years old. The three boys and their father are survived by their mother and sister. 4/10

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    Zamir's younger brother Faisal was 16. His uncle, Romal, who was for the strike, told me his nephew was badly wounded in the torso and face from shrapnel. "He wasn't breathing," he recalled. 3/10

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    His oldest son, Zamir, was 20. He, like his mother and siblings, were included in Zemari's refugee resettlement case, sponsored by his company, Nutrition and Education International. They hoped to escape to America. 2/10

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    12 hours ago

    Zemari Ahmadi, 43, was the target of the strike. The US military said it didn't know who he was, but found his actions suspicious. He was an aid worker for a California-based company, and the breadwinner for his entire extended family. 1/10

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    Acting Minister of Interior Sirajuddin Haqqani - still on the FBIs most wanted list - is introduced in his new role in a room purpose built for the Afghanistan Police by the US.

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    18 hours ago

    Letter of Communique from Ministry of Finance N Kabul states that only male staff are allowed to work & no women.This was the exact case in 1996 when they took over first. No girls were allowed in universities or work. It continued until their fall in 2001

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  20. 12 hours ago

    Remember all the Afghans, Iraqi, Sudanese, Pakistanis, Mauritanians, Yemeni, Syrians and Americans.

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