Joe Nawrozki: Image From Pakistan Causes Fiery Reaction
From a Las Vegas hotel, two former Dundalk residents smile for the camera. In another shot, three vacationers are shown at the Salem Witch Museum in New England.
They are posing with copies of The Dundalk Eagle, and the pictures are part of the paper's popular "Take the Eagle on Vacation" feature.
Then there was Khurshid Khan's trip.
The Dundalk resident returned to his homeland of Pakistan and, surrounded by family members, stood with the historic Khyber Pass as a backdrop and the Eagle front and center. Khan stood with six others dressed in their native garb, one cradling an AK-47, another holding a rifle.
Can we say red alert?
The photograph, which Kahn said was submitted to the paper in June, was published Sept. 8. Angry letters and e-mail landed at the paper. The editor, Wayne Laufert, said he fielded a couple of dozen telephone calls from readers upset about the photo.
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The Khyber Pass area has served as a gateway for invaders and smugglers for centuries, according to historians. Village shops sell brass items, silk scarves and rare rugs, but the region remains volatile.
"More than 150 years ago, people in that region were making flawless replicas of British-made weapons with primitive tools," said S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. "Today, weapons still are very common. The people there are tough mountaineers."
Khan talked to The Sun on the phone three times, but he declined to give the paper permission to reprint the photo that was published in The Dundalk Eagle.
The Eagle has been published since 1969 and has a weekly circulation of about 20,000. The tabloid-size paper covers community news and events. One of its strongest featured contests is the "Mystery Beauty," a photo of an unidentified local woman. The first reader to name the woman wins a shampoo and haircut at a local shop.
They are posing with copies of The Dundalk Eagle, and the pictures are part of the paper's popular "Take the Eagle on Vacation" feature.
Then there was Khurshid Khan's trip.
The Dundalk resident returned to his homeland of Pakistan and, surrounded by family members, stood with the historic Khyber Pass as a backdrop and the Eagle front and center. Khan stood with six others dressed in their native garb, one cradling an AK-47, another holding a rifle.
Can we say red alert?
The photograph, which Kahn said was submitted to the paper in June, was published Sept. 8. Angry letters and e-mail landed at the paper. The editor, Wayne Laufert, said he fielded a couple of dozen telephone calls from readers upset about the photo.
...
The Khyber Pass area has served as a gateway for invaders and smugglers for centuries, according to historians. Village shops sell brass items, silk scarves and rare rugs, but the region remains volatile.
"More than 150 years ago, people in that region were making flawless replicas of British-made weapons with primitive tools," said S. Frederick Starr, chairman of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. "Today, weapons still are very common. The people there are tough mountaineers."
Khan talked to The Sun on the phone three times, but he declined to give the paper permission to reprint the photo that was published in The Dundalk Eagle.
The Eagle has been published since 1969 and has a weekly circulation of about 20,000. The tabloid-size paper covers community news and events. One of its strongest featured contests is the "Mystery Beauty," a photo of an unidentified local woman. The first reader to name the woman wins a shampoo and haircut at a local shop.