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Dapper Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan was always a man with a mission--even if it was long shrouded in obscurity. Some 30 years ago, he allegedly stole blueprints for enriching uranium from the top-secret Dutch lab where he worked. For decades, his team in Pakistan labored behind heavily guarded walls to produce enough of the fuel to make A-bombs. In 1998 he watched proudly as Pakistan detonated its first nuclear devices beneath the scorched desert hills of Baluchistan, shocking an unsuspecting world. A public hero at last to exultant countrymen, he was hailed throughout the Muslim world...
...There are other signs of potential trouble ahead. Former Prime Minister of Pakistani-held Kashmir, Sardar Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan, is concerned that Kashmiris have been excluded from upcoming negotiations, undermining the legitimacy of the talks. "They agreed that Kashmir was a central issue," he says, "but they did not mention the centrality of the Kashmiris in making any decision." And there are questions, too, about Musharraf's reasons for seeking peace. Some observers say that although he had been considering rapprochement with India for some time, his decision to drop support for Kashmiri militancy was cemented by the Christmas...
...Committed to Reform Your story "A Paradise Divided" [dec. 8] fails to portray an accurate account of the situation and events in the Maldives, notwithstanding the fact that your correspondent undertook a lengthy interview with His Excellency President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. The assertion that the riots in Malé did not appear to "disturb Gayoom's reverie" is highly partial-particularly given the fact that immediately after they happened, he appeared on national television talking about them, and visited the relatives of the prisoner who died. What's more, the gibe about a presidential yacht is a cheap...
Remtilla played the Paula Abdul to Raynor’s Simon-like criticism of Forbess...
...wriggles forward in his armchair, plants tiptoes on the floor and begins the story of his revolutionary days. It's a little-known epic of how a humble teacher endured oppression, rose to lead his island people against a tyrant and finally triumphed, uniting the palm-lined Maldives. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom wears a saintly smile as he stresses that he "did not seek" greatness but rather "a lot of people wanted me to be President... so I accepted." As the man who is now Asia's longest-serving elected leader begins his sixth five-year term, he relates how under...