by Zahra Nader and Zan Times reporters in The Guardian, Aug 28, 2023 at 10.00 BSTFirst, her dreams of becoming a doctor were dashed by the Taliban’s ban on education. Then her family set up a forced marriage to her cousin, a heroin addict. Latifa* felt her future had been snatched away. “I had two options: to marry an addict and live a life of misery or take my own life,” said the 18-year-old in…
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AP report, Aug 26, 2023A Pakistani doctor and former Mayo Clinic research coordinator who sought to join Islamic State (Isis) to fight in Syria and expressed interest in carrying out attacks on US soil was sentenced on Friday to 18 years in prison. Muhammad Masood, 31, pleaded guilty a year ago to attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organisation. Prosecutors said he attempted unsuccessfully to travel from the US to Syria via…