Word: khans
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HERAT A hero of the anti-Soviet and anti-Taliban resistance, Tajik ISMAIL KHAN, loyal to the Jamiat party, is Afghanistan's most powerful warlord, commanding 15,000 men, the country's largest semiautonomous force...
PAKTIKA One of a long line of Pashtun tribal chiefs who have regarded Kabul's writ with indifference, PACHA KHAN ZADRAN is fighting Karzai's appointees to the governorships of Paktika and neighboring Khost. U.S. officers believe Zadran, who retains links with al-Qaeda and Taliban elements, may pose a danger to U.S. forces...
...star shared a spot on the Cannes Film Festival's nine-member jury with Indonesia's Christine Hakim?the first time two Asian actresses had been chosen for this distinguished panel. Another Cannes first: a Bollywood musical, Devdas, was part of the official selection, luring Indian mega-muffin Shahrukh Khan to this dappled Riviera town. For the fifth time in six years, at least one major prize went to an East Asian film: Chihwaseon, by Korean film legend Im Kwon Taek. All in all, another triumphant year for Asia at the world's biggest festival...
...Bhansali has lavished on the new version. Reportedly the most expensive production in Indian history, it could well be the most visually ravishing movie ever. Its gorgeous, gargantuan sets inebriate the eye, even as the plot (boy loves girl, boy loses girl, boy dies) seems drunk on luscious masochism. Khan, a total, tragic charmer in the title role, is bookended by two beauties (Madhuri Dixit and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai) with a sad wisdom to match their screen charisma. The dialogue is ripe enough to provide song cues for nine fabulous dance numbers. But the fervid emotion and visual...
Zafran Bibi's case is especially complex. Her husband Naimat Khan, who until last year was in jail on a murder charge, claims that his own father forced Zafran Bibi to make the rape accusation against a man with whom the father was feuding. Later she changed her story and accused her brother-in-law, who was never charged. Khan says his wife actually became pregnant after a conjugal visit to him in jail. "It will be justice if my wife is handed back to me," says Khan...