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Lieutenant Colonel Akhtar Abbas, army spokesman in Swat, says the military is taking its cue from the populace. "We listened to them, we tried to solve their problems," he says. "They're our own brothers and sisters, we're not like the Americans in Iraq...
...Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League--are moderate. But continued U.S. support for an unpopular Musharraf may complicate Washington's relations with any future civilian government. Pakistanis see Musharraf as America's man and regard U.S. calls for democracy as insincere. "Musharraf is an enemy of Pakistan," says Akhtar Qazi, a 71-year-old retired schoolteacher with anger to match her brightly hennaed hair. "We sacrificed our lives for Pakistan, and he wants to sell it to the Americans." Like many Pakistanis, Qazi figures the U.S. wants Musharraf in power no matter what he does. There are even growing rumbles...
...UNDER INVESTIGATION. Mohammad Asif, 23, and Shoaib Akhtar, 31, star bowlers for Pakistan's scandal-plagued national cricket team; after testing positive for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone during India's Champions Trophy tournament; in Lahore. Both players, who await results from a second test and are set to face a doping tribunal next week, have denied knowingly taking any illegal substance. If the results are confirmed, it will mark the first time that international cricket players have tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs...
...roles as artists as touching the audience in a way beneath the hardened political rhetoric," says Ayad Akhtar, who co-wrote and stars (in his debut lead performance) in War Within. His character, Hassan, is a Pakistani who plans, coldly, to blow himself up. But he falls in love, is touched by suffering and speaks passionately about his cause. That, Akhtar recognizes, is a treacherous balance. "As an actor, I very much approached this as a portrayal of a suicide," he says. "As filmmakers, we always had to keep in mind that this was an act of murder...
...there are no monsters. There are only men and women whom circumstance and ideology have led them to commit monstrous acts. “War”’s protagonist is an American-educated Pakistani engineer named Hasan (Ayad Akhtar). Hasan’s brother is an Islamic radical and a terror suspect—American intelligence believes that Hasan may have information as to his whereabouts and possible terror plans. Rather than question him directly, American intelligence has Hasan abducted and shipped to his native Pakistan for interrogation: the rationale is that in Pakistan the Geneva Convention?...