[Lightstalkers] welcome ajmal

welcome ajmal

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 18:27:27 +0000

hello everyone. greetings from afghanistan. I want to introduce my old friend Ajmal. He is working as a correspondent for a japanese news service, and a fixer-translator extraordinaire. He can also hook up accomodation for you and and just about anything else in Afghanistan, and is real good people. cheers all. T

Re: welcome ajmal

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 06:49:17 +0000

hey Teru, is yer man still in Afghanistan? our fixer is not working out so well and we need a good one here in Kabul. if anyone else has a good contact, let me know! thanks!

Re: welcome ajmal

Fri, 19 Aug 2005 07:08:38 +0000

should be, call him or swing by the Everest and see if he's there. contact info on his profile. www.lightstalkers.org/ajmal

Re: welcome ajmal

Sun, 18 Sep 2005 01:08:18 +0000

Hey Teru : thanks for interducing me to all friends , since Stephanie contacted me she is OK , i am so busy but i interduced
her another friend of mine that he is presently working with her and she is in Jalalabad now.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:39:15 +0000

!http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42777000/jpg/_42777993_nafp.jpg! *Ajmal Naqeshbandi ~ Freelance Journalist, LS Colleague and Friend.* We send our condolences, sympathy and prayers for Ajmal to his family, friends, LS colleagues and the independent journalists of Afghanistan. Ajmal will be a significant life greatly missed not just to the Afghan people but to his friends from LS and from around the globe. I'm very sorry for your loss, Teru. Let me know if there is anything I can do. Gayle

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 01:46:40 +0000

no..please.......

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:13:26 +0000

I just want to echo Gayle's thoughts. My condolences, Teru.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:36:04 +0000

this is real sad.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 03:48:49 +0000

Ajmal may you rest in peace. My deepest sympathies to Ajmal's family, friends and colleagues.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:27:23 +0000

This is another sad, sensless act in this neverending war. Condolences to Ajmal's family and firends. I sincerely hope that everything has been done to rescue his life. Now it's time to go on, and think about the two French journalists. good bye, Ajmal.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 05:32:57 +0000

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Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:17:47 +0000

My condolences to Ajmal's family and friends...

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:25:51 +0000

Shall there be any new days when we'll not have to hear these bad news? When these innocent-killings in sake of war will be stopped? I've lost my words. But as Gary said, each of us who we use them must have to take the responsibility. Rest in peace Ajmal...You'll always remain in our heart...

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 06:58:41 +0000

I am so very sorry. My condolences and sympathies to Ajmal's family and friends.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:11:06 +0000

My condolences and sympathies to Ajmal’s family

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:17:59 +0000

i just don't understand why/how our elected [some] leaders have no power at all to help individuals. or simply not the desire. it's a senseless brutal act of cruelty, this that some lives appear to be worth more than others. that our elected officials, those that symbolically have the ability to use their power to defend their citizens, allow these senseless acts to happen, to continue. truely, it is a mirage, their power. it is everyone else, all of us, who hold the key to the future. -- may you go in peace, my thoughts go out to Ajmal's family and loved ones.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 07:57:23 +0000

An injustice - sad and infuriating. There needs to be a publicity campaign in Afghanistan to expose this cruelty. What is AINA doing with this?

I'm so sorry it came to this for Ajmal his family and friends.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:39:28 +0000

My heart goes out to him, his family and friends.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:30:18 +0000

"Inna lillahi wa ina illayhi raji'uun" From God we come and to Him shall we return

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:18:46 +0000

Teru, I share your loss, and that of others who have worked with or knew him. I hope all efforts were made by the Afghan and other forces to find and free him.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:59:40 +0000

I am reminded daily of man's inhumanity to man. What happened to Ajmal is truly the horror and beyond comprehension. The pain is gone for our colleague, Ajmal, but it remains with all his family and friends for with his untimely and unnecessary death. My heart goes out to Ajmal's family.

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 12:15:09 +0000

a japanese buddhist proverb: Hana wa né ni kaeru. (The flower returns to its root) my deep and heart-wrung condolescence for Ajmal's family and friends....our family's heart is with Ajmal's family and friends....

Re: welcome ajmal

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:01:25 +0000

Teru, I woke up this morning to read all these comforting letters for Ajmal, family and friends from his colleagues here at LS. It gave me a good feeling and helped a lot to read them. Perhaps we can send this post along to Ajmal's family for the same reason, along with the donations to help his family (father, new widow, brother, etc.)? Let me know if you need this post and some from the Letter to Ajmal posts compiled into a Word document. Let me know if that is appropriate to present the family. I will start to compile that right now, then, and email it to you before I hear when the Bubbles Lounge (now Memorial?) meeting is in NYC this week. Thanks, Gayle

Re: welcome ajmal

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:15:04 +0000

http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2007/04/10/demands-unmet-the-taliban-take-an-afghan-journalists-life/

Re: welcome ajmal

Tue, 10 Apr 2007 23:23:53 +0000

http://kabulpress.org/my/en/spip.php?article22

Re: welcome ajmal

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:14:30 +0000

:-( It's a cruel, cruel world... When will it all end?

Re: welcome ajmal

Wed, 11 Apr 2007 07:44:35 +0000

I want to express my most sincere feelings to Ajmal family and friends, Teru and the others who had the privilege to work with him, these are very sad times indeed. I wish I could be in NY to attend. Bruno

Re: welcome ajmal

Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:58:32 +0000

If you haven't already read it, here is Teru's Pdnonline article that he wrote for his friend Ajmal. "*A Friend And Colleague Remembers Ajmal Naqshbandi*":http://www.pdnonline.com/pdn/newswire/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003572309 April 16, 2007 by Teru Kuwayama ``````````````````````` I didn't know Ajmal personally. Primarily only knew what I had read or heard Teru say about him in that short amount of time here when everyone tried to save him through our organized letters of support. Also, I've only known and worked with Teru off and on throughout the last year at LS, but even so, I can tell from his images, his LS posts and the contributions he makes to independent photography, journalism, and humanitarian aid through November Eleven and LS , that obviously both Teru and Shinji are sincere individuals who have very unique gifts. I personally am reminded that even though we lost someone as remarkable and priceless as Ajmal, so violently, and for the most sick and self-serving purposes, together in combination with the callous, corrupt reasoning of those who had, at least an opportunity to secure his freedom from these serial murderers, still we have accomplished something here for Ajmal. In Ajmal's memory, we should never regret stopping our personal lives for a short moment to become professionally involved with helping someone who is just as highly regarded as a friend, as they are a colleague. I do think, and with little hesitation, that I benefited the most from Teru’s article than I have from any other regarding Ajmal’s circumstances. It rings with clarity and also a feeling of truth. The article is not only a sincere reference to the talents, skills and personal sacrifice that, in his short life, Ajmal was able to give to the good people of Afghanistan and the profession of independent journalism, but also, I can read it as a tribute, if we are to survive, to the concept of valuing and supporting family, friends and colleagues in whatever community we live in or have the opportunity to contribute to. I believe, also, that the article may serve to draw the reader closer in memory and heart to any person, friend or colleague, who were highly valued, but for whatever reason had to leave us behind for the spirit world. So, when you read this wonderful article that Teru wrote for Ajmal you will, no doubt, understand as I did, why Teru's friend soon became our friend. And that those same unique qualities that caused Teru to place Ajmal's friendship in such high regard, also rewarded Ajmal many times over with the multitude of concerned friends and colleagues that came from every corner of the world, and among them we were with him when he needed us most. Ajmal, you are not forgotten. Your bright spirit, resourcefulness and integrity will not just be an inspiration during the darkest and brightest days of those that knew you, but now you are also a journalist and guide to a vital and vast growing ocean of new colleagues and friends that your strong heart and memory is still creating. "*You Are Not Forgotten*":http://youarenotforgotten.net Gayle Hegland

Re: welcome ajmal

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 22:30:44 +0000

Teru: Your remembrance is a beautifully eloquent and moving testimony to Ajmal and to his spirit. If indeed we are measured by the light of our friendships then your acts continue to highlight for me how luminous and special Ajmal was. Thank you very much for sharing with us your words, light in themselves. Bob

Re: welcome ajmal

Wed, 02 May 2007 12:01:37 +0000

Teru's words are heartbreaking. And my thoughts are with Ajmal's family, his wife and all who loved him. I only hope that the honour and integrity with which he lived his life and conducted his work will inspire others, as learning about him though Teru's words touched and inspired me. Jenny

Re: welcome ajmal

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:43:03 +0000

"Fields Of Gold" You'll remember me when the west wind moves Upon the fields of barley You'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we walk in the fields of gold So she took her love For to gaze awhile Upon the fields of barley In his arms she fell as her hair came down Among the fields of gold Will you stay with me, will you be my love Among the fields of barley We'll forget the sun in his jealous sky As we lie in the fields of gold See the west wind move like a lover so Upon the fields of barley Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth Among the fields of gold I never made promises lightly And there have been some that I've broken But I swear in the days still left We'll walk in the fields of gold ~Sting~ Ajmal, "*we remember you*":http://youarenotforgotten.net/ !http://home.centurytel.net/gaylehegland/fieldofgold2.jpg! http://www.cjr.org/behind_the_news/demands_unmet_the_taliban_take.php