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From: Tariq Mahmood [mailto:tariq200@...]
Sent: Sunday, 1 October 2000 7:58 PM
To: Eric.Britton@...
Subject: Special Journal issue: Walk to School

Dear Eric Britton!
I will like to help in shape of transferring items from your journal in
English to Urdu and Pashto or back from these languages to English. The two
languages are understood by about 700 million and 40 million people
respectively.

Yours
Tariq Mahmood
Hassan Garhi, Peshawar, Pakistan
phone: 092-91-246950
mail to: tariq200@... <mailto:tariq200@...>


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You will understand perhaps that in more than a decade of running, or trying
to run, these cooperative problem solving efforts on the Net, this is among
the most touching messages and offers that I have ever received.

If you want to seize even a touch of the terrible difficulties that people
are facing in Pakistan, let me point you to Robert Kaplan's recent article
in the Atlantic Monthly at
http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2000/09/kaplan.htm. I am not suggesting
that you take it as gospel, but the one thing that comes out of both this
read and my previous (meager) experience in the area, is that the only hope
for the future is their children. So, if one could only contribute even in
this small way. . .