In addition, traditional Pashtun music ( especially in the southeast of the country ) has entered a period of " golden years ", according to a prominent spokesman for Afghan Ministry of Interior, Lutfullah Mashal.

Khaled Mashal, (,, also transcribed Khaled Mashaal, Khaled Meshaal and Khalid Mish ' al ; born 28 May 1956 ) has been the main leader of the Palestinian militant organization Hamas since the assassination of Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi in 2004.

February: Negotiations in Mecca produced agreement on a Palestinian national unity government signed by Abbas on behalf of Fatah and Khaled Mashal on behalf of Hamas.

Mashal was part of the leadership of the project to build a Palestinian Islamic movement from its inception, after 1984 Mashal devoted himself to the project on a full-time basis.

Mashal attended Arafat's funeral, alongside the Saudi royal family, in Cairo on 12 November 2004.

Later, on 13 February 2006, Mashal declared that Hamas would end the armed struggle against Israel if Israel withdrew to its pre-1967 borders and recognize a Palestinian right of return.

In a Reuters interview on 31 July 2006, Mashal warned Palestinians everywhere against attempts to separate the Lebanese and Palestinian issues.

Former US President and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter met with Mashal on 21 April 2008 and reached an agreement that Hamas would respect the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip areas seized by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, provided that such a state is ratified by the Palestinian people in a referendum.

Later, on 27 May 2008, Mashal met the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei, in Teheran and stated, " The Palestinian nation will continue its resistance despite all pressures and will not under any circumstances stop its jihad.

" Outlook on the Music of Persia ,", Mashal Publications, Isfahan, 1990.

In 1997, after two deadly suicide attacks in Jerusalem by the Hamas, Israeli secret agents were sent to Jordan to eliminate the political head of the Department of Hamas, Khaled Mashal, using a special poison ( See the assassination attempt on Khaled Mashal ).

* Abe Mashal, a 31-year-old Muslim and United States Marine Veteran, found himself on the No Fly List in April 2010 while attempting to board a plane out of Midway Airport.

Mashal then contacted the ACLU and is now being represented in a class-action lawsuit filed against the TSA, FBI and DHS concerning the legality of the No Fly List and how people end up on it.

Mashal feels as if he was blackmailed into becoming an informant by being placed on the No Fly List.

The dimethyl methylphosphonate was bound for the Israel Institute for Biological Research in Ness Ziona, a top secret military installation outside Tel Aviv that was also responsible for producing the poison used in a September 1997 assassination attempt on a leader of the terrorist organization Hamas ( Khaled Mashal ).

CPN ( UC ) was formed on November 19-20 1990, through the merger of Communist Party of Nepal ( Mashal ), Communist Party of Nepal ( Fourth Convention ), Proletarian Workers Organisation and Communist Party of Nepal ( Janamukhi ).

On 10 July 2006, Mashal spoke authoritatively concerning the Israeli prisoner, stating Shalit was a prisoner of war and demanding a prisoner swap.

From left to right: Jamaluddin Badar of Nuristan Province | Nuristan, Lutfullah Mashal of Laghman Province | Laghman, Gul Agha Sherzai of Nangarhar Province | Nangarhar, and Fazlullah Wahidi of Kunar Province.

In 1997 Yassin was released from Israeli prison as part of an arrangement with Jordan following the failed assassination attempt of Khaled Mashal, which had been conducted by the Israeli Mossad in Jordan.

Several sources refer to levofentanyl as the agent used by Mossad agents in their unsuccessful attempt to kill Hamas leader Khaled Mashal.

In September 1997 an Israeli Mossad team tried to assassinate Hamas political chief, Khaled Mashal by drizzling poison in his ear.

In addition, Mashal heads the Syrian branch of the political bureau of Hamas.

Mashal was born in Silwad, a village north of Ramallah and moved to Jordan in 1967.

While attending Kuwait University, Mashal, as an Islamic student leader, challenged the dominance of Yasser Arafat and the Palestine Liberation Organization, participating in the foundation of the Islamic Haqq Bloc, which competed with Fatah for leadership of the General Union of Palestinian Students in Kuwait.

After the founding of Hamas in 1987, Mashal came to lead the Kuwaiti branch of the organization.

Mashal moved from Kuwait to Jordan in 1991.

Since the expulsion of the Hamas leadership from Jordan in August 1999, Mashal lived in Qatar before moving to the Syrian capital of Damascus in 2001.

In February 2012, as the Syrian civil war progressed, Mashal left Syria and returned to Qatar.

Khaled Mashal was born in the village of Silwad, north of Ramallah, then ruled by Jordan.

Mashal attended Silwad Elementary School until the 1967 Six-Day War and the occupation of the West Bank by Israel.

Mashal holds a bachelor of science degree in Physics from Kuwait University.

Mashal joined the Muslim Brotherhood in 1971.

While at Kuwait University, Mashal headed the Islamic Justice ( qa ’ imat al-haq al-islamiyya ) list in the General Union of Palestinian Students ( GUPS ) elections in 1977.

After the cancellation of the GUPS elections, Mashal established the Islamic League for Palestinian Students ( al-rabita al-islamiyya li talabat filastin ) in 1980.

Mashal taught in the Kuwait schools from 1978 to 1984.

During this period Mashal remained in Kuwait.

Mashal lived in Kuwait until the 1991 Gulf War.

The situation of the South since 1865 has been unique in the western world.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

He returned to Germany for the first time in 1953, where he has since conducted in Cologne, Frankfurt, and Berlin.

according to many critics, in fact, the South has led the North in literature since the Civil War, both quantitatively and qualitatively.

An example of the changes which have crept over the Southern region may be seen in the Southern Negro's quest for a position in the white-dominated society, a problem that has been reflected in regional fiction especially since 1865.

There was also a lesson, one that has served ever since to keep Americans, in their conflicts with one another, from turning from the ballot to the bullet.

We have staved off a war and, since our behavior has involved all these elements, we can only keep adding to our ritual without daring to abandon any part of it, since we have not the slightest notion which parts are effective.

It had a bucolic atmosphere that it has lost long since.

Also, since the man questioned feels a strong compulsion to answer ( and thereby avoid the consequences of being thought queer ) the question has assumed some measurable properties of a command.

The novelist who has been badly baptized in psychoanalysis often gives us the impression that since all men must have an Oedipus complex all men must have the same faces.

`` We were possessed by visions of a new civilization to come, very pure and elevated '', he has said, `` in fact some ideal form of socialism such as we had dreamed of since the war of 1914-1918 ''.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

The planter aristocracy has appeared in literature at least since John Pendleton Kennedy published Swallow-Barn in 1832 and in his genial portrait of Frank Meriwether presiding over his plantation dominion initiated the most persistent tradition of Southern literature.

The book, published in 1927, has been selling steadily ever since.

Some of the children of the family could not pronounce this name and called her Paula, a soubriquet Carl liked so much she has been Paula ever since.

This rather detached attitude toward life's encumbrances has seemed to be the dominant trait in Mercer's personality ever since.

It has been a long time since he has seen any campaign money, and when the proposition is laid down to him as the friends of Mr. Hearst are laying it down these days he is quite likely to get aboard the Hearst bandwagon ''.

At about the age of twelve I became a Spencerian liberal, and I have always considered myself a liberal of some kind even though the definition has changed repeatedly since Spencer became a reactionary.

But since 1945, Sam Spade has undergone a metamorphosis ; ;

But since last fall the United States has been moving toward a pro-neutralist position and now is ready to back the British plan for a cease-fire patrolled by outside observers and followed by a conference of interested powers.

Less than half the sum has been spent, since the Interama board pinched pennies during that period of painstaking negotiations.

Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

The crisis has been renewed since then but the confusion has hardly been compounded.