Ahmed (driver)
Ahwan, Akbar
AIG
Airborne Rangers
Air Force, U.S.
Air Force Academy, U.S.
Aisha (student)
Aksu River
Al-Abbas Hotel and Restaurant
Al Abid Primary School
Alexander the Great
Ali, Haji
Ali, Jahan
Ali, Niaz
Ali, Twaha
Alima (earthquake victim)
Al Jazeera
Al-Khidmat Foundation
Allah
Al Qaeda
Al Rashid Trust
Amritsar
Amu Darya River
Anatolia
Anii (fourth-grade student)
Annapolis, U.S. Naval Academy at
anti-Western riots, in Badakshan
Ariana
Armstrong, Neil
Army, U.S.
Army Reserve, U.S.
Asia House (London)
Askari Aviation
Associated Press
Atlantic Council
Aung San Suu Kyi
Azad Jammu
Azad Kashmir (Free Kashmir)
Aziz, Amir
Baba, Haji
Baba Gundi Ziarat
Babur, Emperor
Babu Tengi
Badakshan
anti-Western riots in
Border Security Force of
school projects in
Baghlan
Bagram
Bagram Airbase
Baharah
Baharak
school project in, see Badakshan, school projects in
Bahrain
Baig, Bibi Nissa
Baig, Faisal
Baig, Narzeek
Baig, Nasreen
Baig, Saidullah
Balakot
Baltistan
Bam-I-Dunya
Bangladesh
Barg-e Matal
Batangi
Baujur
BBC
Begum, Sahera
Behdi
Bernanke, Ben
Bhedi
Bhutan
Bhutto, Benazir
Bhutto, Zulfikar Ali
Big Pamir
bin Laden, Osama
Bishkek
Blue Heron Coffeehouse
Boedecker, George
Boi, Tashi
Bombay, terrorist attacks on
Border Security Force, Badakshan
Bosnia
Bozai Gumbaz
Bozeman, Mont.
Braldu River
Braldu Valley
Brazil
Burma
Bush, Barbara
Bush, George W.
Bush, Laura
Bush administration
CAC
CAI, see Central Asia Institute
Callahan, Ted
Campbell, Susan
Camp Lejeune
Camp Pendleton
CARE
CENTCOM (U.S. Central Command)
Center for Homeland Security
Central Asia Institute (CAI)
as counterbalance to fundamentalist madrassas
earthquake-proof schools built by
field staff of
fund-raising by
girls’ hostels of
Kashmir earthquake relief and
“last place first,” philosophy of
NGO registration process for
playground projects of
scholarships and vocational programs of
schools of
as secular organization
travel arrangements of
U.S. military and
women’s education as key mission of
see also specific schools and projects
Central Command, U.S. (CENTCOM)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Chabot, Doug
Chabot, Genevieve
Chakmak Lake
Char Asiab Valley
Charles, Prince of Wales
Charpurson Valley
Chaudhry, Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudry, Shaukat Ali
Chechnya
China
Chinese Buddhists
Chitral
Chunda
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
Clinton, Bill
Clinton administration
Colombia
Colorado, University of
Combined Military Hospital (Rawalpindi)
Congress, U.S.
see also House of Representatives, U.S.
Cornwall, Duchess of
Council on Foreign Relations
counterinsurgency, education as key to
Counterinsurgency Field Manual (U.S. Army Marine Corps)
Crowley, Aleister
Dakar Rally
Daoud (airport vendor)
Darghil
Defense Department, U.S.
de Goes, Benedict
Deh Rawod school project
Delhi
Delta Force
Department for International Development, British
Department of the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, Taliban
Dermatological Nurses Association
Descent Into Chaos (Rashid)
Dras
Durango, Colo.
earthquake-proof schools
East Africa
East Timor
East West Foundation
Economy, Ministry of, Afghanistan
Edinburgh International Book Festival
education:
in Afghanistan
fundamentalist madrassas and
in Pakistan
of women, see women, education of
Education Ministry, Afghanistan
Education Ministry, Pakistan
Egypt
Enduring Freedom, Operation
Eskan Girls’ Primary School
Eurasia
Europe
Faizabad
Faizabad Girls’ School
Fakhar School
Fallujah, battle of
Farrell, Stephen
Farzana (eighth-grade student)
Fatima Memorial Hospital
Federal Reserve, U.S.
Filkins, Dexter
Firefly Restaurant
First Marine Expeditionary Force
FOCUS
Foreign Affairs Ministry, Afghanistan
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, British
Fort Sam Houston
Forward Operating Base (FOB) Naray
France
Free Kashmir (Azad Kashmir)
Friedman, Thomas
Frontier Works Organization (FWO)
fundamentalism, see Islamic fundamentalists
Genghis Khan
Geological Survey, U.S.
Germany
Ghani, Ashraf
Gilgit
Gondwana
Government Boys’ Degree High School
Government Degree College
Gozkhon
Grand Trunk Highway
Great Britain
Department for International Development of
Guantánamo Bay
Guardian
Guatemala
Gulmit Federal Government Girls’ High School
Gulnaz, Bibi
Gultori
Gundi Piran Secondary School for Girls
Gunnink, Brett
Habib, Malim Abdul
Habib Bank
Hamburg, Keith
Harvard Travellers Club
Hassan, Mohammad
Hassan, Siddre
Helmand Province
Helmand Valley
Hemingway, Ernest
Herat
Herold, Marc
High Pamir
Himalayas
Hindu Kush
Hoerni, Jean
Hosseini, Khaled
House of Repr
esentatives, U.S.:
Armed Services Committee of
Financial Services Committee of
Hsuan Tsang
Hunza Valley
Hushe
Husmani, Khalid
Hussain, Aziza
Hussein, Mohammed
Hussein, Nur
India
Kashmir conflict and
Indus River
infant mortality
Inner Tartary
Interior Ministry, Kabul
Iran
Iraq
Iraq War
civilian casualties in
Irshad Pass
Ishkoshem
Ishkoshem Girls’ High School
Islam
Islamabad
Islamic fundamentalists
in Kashmir earthquake relief efforts
see also religious extremism; specific organizations
Ismailis
Italy
Jalalabad
Jalozai Refugee Camp
Jamaat-e-Islami
Jamat-ud-Dawa
Jammu
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
Japan
Jawaid (Pathan man)
Jhelum River
Jherum Girls’ Primary School
Kabul
Abdul Rashid Khan’s trips to
Taliban’s oppression of women in
U.S. bombing damage in
women’s centers in
Kabul International Airport
Kafiristan
Kaghan Valley
Kamdesh
Kamsar refugee camp
Kandahar
Karachi
Kara Jilga
Karakoram
Karakoram Highway
Kargil
Karimi, Abdul Ghani
Karimi, Mateen
Karimi, Wakil
Deh Rawod school project and
Kunar-Nuristan school projects and
Lalander school project and
Pushgur school project and
women’s literacy centers and
Karimi family
Karzai, Hamid
Kashgar
Kashmir
CAI scholarship programs in
earthquake-proof schools in
India-Pakistan conflict in
see also Azad Kashmir
Kashmir, 2005 earthquake in
CAI and
casualties and damage from
drinking water distribution after
girls as victims of
Islamic fundamentalists in relief effort for
relief efforts for
Shaukat Ali and
Kerry, John
Khan, Abdul Rashid
illness of
Kabul trips of
Khan, Aga
Khan, Bibi Numa
Khan, Ismael
Khan, Khoshnood Ali
Khan, Kublai
Khan, Roshan
Khan, Sadhar
in wars against Soviets and Taliban
Khan, Sardar Sikandar Hayat
Khan, Sarfraz
background of
Deh Rawod school project and
gall bladder infection of
Kashmir earthquake relief and
kidnapping-prevention strategies of
Kirghiz school project and
Kunar-Nuristan school projects and
Wakhan school projects and
Khan, Shah Ismail
Khan, Shakila
Khan, Waris
Khan, Wohid
Kirghiz school project and
Khanjar, Operation
Khattoon, Jamila
Khomeini, Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khorog
Khundud
Khunjarab Pass
Khurog
Khyber Pass
Khyber Restaurant
kidnapping
Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC)
Kim (Kipling)
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Kipling, Rudyard
Kirghiz people
Last Exodus of
maternal mortality among
poverty and isolation of
Soviet occupation and
Kirghiz school project
as community effort
contract signed for
emissaries for
logistical obstacles in
Sarfraz Khan and
Wohid Khan and
Kirghizstan
Kittredge, William
Kohala Bridge
Koh Munjon School
Kolenda, Christopher
Koran
Korengal Valley
Korphe
CAI school in
Kosovo
K2
Kuh-i-Lal
Kunar-Nuristan school projects
Kunar Province
power structure in
Kunar River
Kunar Valley
Kurat (earthquake victim)
Kuwait
Ladakh
Lafayette, Calif.
Lahore
Lalander
school project in
Lamb, Christina
Landi Kotal
land mines
Langhar
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Leadership: The Warrior’s Art (Kolenda)
Leh
Lehman Brothers
Leitinger, Christiane
Lejeune, Camp
Liberia
Lifeline, Operation
Lima (twelfth-grade student)
Line of Control (LOC)
Little Pamir
Little Prince, The (Saint-Exupéry)
Logar Province
London
McCaffrey, Barry R.
McChrystal, Stanley
McCown, Karen
McMillan, Jeff
madrassas
Malraux, André
Mao Zedong
Marco Polo Club
Margalla Towers
Marine Corps, U.S.
Memorial Association of
Marine Expeditionary Force
Massoud, Ahmed Shah
maternal mortality
Matiullah, Maulvi
Mazar-i-Sharif
Mecca
Mehmood, Sultan
Mehrdad, Mohammed
military, U.S.
CAI and
counterinsurgency efforts of
Military Academy (West Point), U.S.
Minhas, Suleman
Ministry of Economy, Afghanistan
Ministry of Education, Afghanistan
Ministry of Education, Pakistan
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Afghanistan
Mira, Najeeba
Miraftab
Mirwais Mena School
Mirza, Ilyas
Mohammad, Faisal Haq
Mohammad, Haji
Mohammed, Apo Razak “Chacha”
Mohammed, Faisal
Mohammed, Gul
Mohammed, Gulmarjin
Mohammed, Keyoum
Mohammed, Mullah
Mohammed, Saida
Mohammed, Zia Ullah
Montana State University
Morocco
Morse, Matthew
Mortenson, Amira
Mortenson, Christa
Mortenson, Dempsey
Mortenson, Khyber
Mortenson, Sonja and Kari
Mortenson, Tara
Moti Mahal fort
Mughal, Ghosia
Mughal, Sabir
Muhamad, Haji
Muhammad, the Prophet
Muhammad, Sahil
mujahadeen
rivalries among
Soviet war with
Taliban war with
Mullen, Mike
Munadi, Mohammad Sultan
Murgab
Murree
Musharraf, Bilal
Musharraf, Pervez
Musharraf, Sehba
Muzaffarabad
Muzaffarabad University
Muztaghata
Myatt, Mike
Nabil (earthquake victim)
Najibullah, Mohammad
Najmuddin Khan Wosiq mosque
Nangarhar Province
Naray
National Museum, Afghanistan
National Public Radio (NPR)
NATO
Naval Academy, U.S.
Naval Air Forces Command
Navy SEALS
Nazir, Mohammed
Neelum River
Neelum Valley
Newby, Eric
New Hampshire, University of
Newsweek
New York, N.Y.
New York Times
Nicholson, Jason B.
North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD)
Northern Alliance
Northwest Frontier Province
Nousada
Nouseri
Noyers de l’Altenburg, Les (Malraux)
Nuristan Province
school projects in
Obama, Barack
Obama administration
Olson, Eric
Omar, Mullah
173rd Airborne Divisiont Calvary of
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Khanjar
Operation Lifeline
“Operation School Desk”
opium trade
Ottoman Empire
Outer Tartary
Outside
Oxfam
Oxus River
PACTEC
Pakistan
education in
Kashmir conflict and
poverty in
2005 earthquake in, see Kashmir , 2005 earthquake in
unemployment in
women’s education in
women’s status in
see also specific villages and regions
Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK), see Azad Kashmir
Pakrat
Pamir Highway
Pamir Knot
Pamir ranges, see High Pamir
Panj River
Panjshir River
Panjshir Valley
Parade
Parliament, Afghanistan
Parveen, Kosar
Parvi, Haji Ghulam
Parwan Province
Patika
Peace Guest House
Pendleton, Camp
Pennies for Peace
Pentagon/11 terrorist attack on
see also September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks
Persia
Persian Empire
Peshawar
Petraeus, David
Physicians for Human Rights
Piggush
Pikui
Pir Panjal
playground projects
Polo, Marco
Poonch
poverty:
in Afghanistan
CAI schools and
of Kirghiz
in Pakistan
Powell, Colin
Ptolemy
Public Works Department, Rawalpindi
Pul-e-Khomri
Punjab
Punjab Regiment
Pushgur
Pushgur school project
Qala-e Panj
Qatar
Quetta
Qul, Haji Rahman