Sentence examples for qadir from inspiring English sources
Nangarhar, which Mr Qadir governed in the mid-1990s, is one of Afghanistan's most important areas for the cultivation of opium-producing poppies.
They expected Mr Qadir to be their champion in government.
HAJI ABDUL QADIR did not have much time to enjoy his new job.
One rival for power there, Haji Zaman, was forced to flee to Peshawar in bordering Pakistan two months ago after being bested in a power struggle by Mr Qadir and Hazrat Ali, Ningrahar's military commander.Whatever the motivation of Mr Qadir's killer, his assassination threatens to destabilise a fragile peace in Afghanistan.
Mr Qadir is believed to have benefited from the lucrative opium trade: Nangarhar is one of the main poppy-growing regions in Afghanistan.
However, he eventually accepted the security post.More security, pleasePerhaps the assassination of Mr Qadir shows how naïve it is to expect Afghanistan to change, almost overnight, from a massive terrorist training ground into an Asian version of Switzerland.
IF THE internet is jihad's open university, used for spreading ideological and military knowledge, then one of its most formidable professors is Mustafa bin Abd al-Qadir Setmariam Nasar, better known by his nom de guerre, Abu Musab al-Suri.
Just across the border from Wisconsin, along the Turkey river, the fifteen-hundred residents of Elkader, Iowa, owe their town's name to the Algerian rebel Abd al-Qadir, who fought off French colonizers in the mid-nineteenth century.
In Elkader's schools, students are taught that the historical al-Qadir paved the way for Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King, Elie Wiesel, and Barack Obama.
He later prayed in the Sunni Abdul-Qadir al-Gailani mosque in central Baghdad.
Society now compels us to hold tobacco companies in utter contempt, which is fair enough, but I have to be honest and say I could never hate the Benson and Hedges brand, not when they footed the bill for appearances of the likes of Roger Harper, Abdul Qadir, Graeme LaBrooy and Mohammad Wasim.
