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...alumnus of the stage, 38-year-old actor Irrfan Khan establishes his big-screen credentials with his star turn as the title character in Maqbool. Khan spoke to TIME's South Asia bureau chief, Alex Perry...
...TIME: Maqbool is new territory for Bollywood, isn't it? Khan: This is new, yes. Usually in Bollywood we just film dialogue, which is not really exploring film as a medium. But I'm lucky to be part of a period in which a new generation is coming up with fresh ideas and I get to do things that interest...
...have much to answer for ... I was confronted with the evidence ... and I have voluntarily admitted that much of it is true and accurate." Abdul Qadeer Khan, founder of Pakistan's nuclear-weapons program, who appeared on national television to admit having shared nuclear technology with Libya, North Korea and Iran...
Like many Pakistanis, I am unsure of how to react to the proliferation scandal surrounding Abdul Qadeer Khan, the "father of the Islamic Bomb." Khan admitted last week to providing nuclear technology to Iran, Libya and North Korea but was pardoned by Pakistan's President, General Pervez Musharraf. The case exposes deep conflicts in my feelings about my country, our policies and the direction we are taking...
...Because it is widely believed that Khan could not have acted without the army's knowledge, the proliferation scandal also raises the issue of whether military rule is desirable in Pakistan. I have for most of my life despised the idea of dictatorship, of citizens being told what is right for them by an unelected, unaccountable body. I have vivid memories, even a decade and a half later, of the disastrous policies initiated by General Zia ul-Haq in the 1980s, policies of Islamization, of news broadcasts in Arabic, intimidation of journalists, oppression of women...