The young men at the Harakat ul-Mujahedeen headquarters here in Peshawar hewed carefully to the group's line of thinking, which echoes that of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler: groups waging holy war are acceptable, but terrorism is not.
But it cracks down on Politics, with a capital P, which the analyst defined as anyone who questioned the legitimacy of the military rulers, like groups that support Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader and Nobel laureate.
Khan had been both the most successful conqueror and the most benign ruler of the group, ruling more than a quarter of the Earth's area across Asia to the Middle East from 1992 to 1996 with a firm but generally peaceful hand until he was deposed.
Israel says civilian casualties in Gaza were the fault of the area's Hamas rulers, claiming the group used residential areas for cover during the fighting.
While the trend among natives is still to keep quiet and enjoy the comfortable life provided by the rulers, a small group of activists is agitating for greater political participation — and drawing the attention of the authorities.
Above all, it considers such an arrangement unacceptable to Afghanistan's Pushtuns, the country's historic rulers and biggest group, who are close cousins of its Pushtuns in the tribal lands and NWFP.
He is skinny, soft-spoken and, in a bored sort of way, lists the demands issued to the state's communist rulers by his group, the People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), which represents local adivasis or members of India's tribal minorities.
Libya's new rulers told the group about the previously unknown stocks last year after removing Gaddafi from power.
Angered by this, the human rulers hire a group of adventurers (the player characters) to "punish the miscreant giants".
In Burma during the year of 2007, when peaceful protests by Buddhist monks were violently crushed by the country's military rulers, an unusual group of protesters emerged.
