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...throngs that danced around her specially designed bulletproof Bhutto-mobile as it made its way from the airport to the shrine of Pakistan's founder, her arrival was a moment of celebration and a reason to hope. "This is an historic moment in the history of Pakistan," said Ali Shah, who came from the troubled North West Frontier Province in a journey that lasted nearly three days. "We have been protesting this military government for eight years, and now Benazir has returned to resume civilian rule. She has forced the general to remove his uniform." But he cautions, she also...
Chak De India is not your average Bollywood blockbuster. The film, released on August 10, may star Shah Rukh Khan, but the A-list heartthrob plays a disgraced field-hockey player who redeems himself by coaching the Indian women's hockey team to win the world cup. Khan doesn't get to show any cool dance moves while wooing a beautiful female lead, or display his well-toned muscles in fight sequences with bad guys. In fact, the film gets by without a single song-and-dance routine at all. Yet, it ran to packed houses even two months after...
...however, has built her following based on a tireless campaign against army rule. Her discussions with Musharraf have earned her the ire of party faithful who say she has sold out in order to save her own skin. "She's making a deal with a dictator," says Ali Nazar Shah, a schoolteacher from Larkana. Bhutto is aware of these allegations, but says that for the sake of Pakistan it is better to be practical. "We believe the nation should leave the past behind and look towards a better future," she said in a London press conference announcing the reconciliation deal...
...course, the two worlds can meet. Afghan Shah Muhammad Rais claimed that his portrayal as a domestic tyrant in the global best seller The Bookseller of Kabul by Norwegian journalist Asne Seierstad exposed him to dishonor. So he did a very Western thing, suing Seierstad for defamation in Norway. Then he went one better: Rais now has a deal with a Norwegian publisher for a book of his own. A spot on Oprah has to be next...
...lethal force and not worry about going to jail; a Western security contractor will make in a week what an Iraqi might make in a year. Private security contractors are a humiliation equal to the humiliations that provoked the Boxer Rebellion in China or drove Iranians to overthrow the Shah. Security contractors may be keeping our officials alive, but they are not winning the hearts and minds of the Iraqis...