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...FREED. Mirza Tahir Hussain, 36, Pakistani-born British Muslim sentenced to be hanged for the 1988 killing of taxi driver Jamshed Khan; after Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf commuted his sentence; in Rawalpindi. Hussain, who said Khan had died after a gun went off during a struggle as the driver tried to sexually assault him, became a cause célèbre among Britain's Pakistani community and earned an appeal for clemency from Prince Charles during a visit to Pakistan last month. "At last," said Hussain's brother Amjad upon his release, "these 18 years of nightmare appear...
Some urban dwellers are taking matters into their own hands. In parts of Delhi, companies are now employing imposing langur monkeys to protect buildings and scare off the smaller rhesus monkeys. "Any langur will do the business," says Zahid Khan, 20, a langur handler who regularly chains one or two outside the Press Trust of India building, which houses TIME's Delhi bureau. "The monkeys are petrified of them...
...introduction of a 40-lb. beast outside your window doesn't exactly bring a sense of tranquillity. With their sharp teeth and long, muscular tail that can swat an errant primate from a couple of feet away, langurs are scary not just to smaller monkeys but also to humans. Khan says business is good, despite the recent proliferation of competitors. The company he works for employs 12 langurs, including the two he was using to guard our building a few weeks ago: Babby, an 8-year-old female with a young baby playing at her feet; and Ramu, a fierce...
...DIED. Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, strong-willed President of Pakistan who dismissed two democratically elected governments; in Peshawar. Khan, who served as Finance Minister and chairman of the Senate, replaced General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq as President after Zia's death in a plane crash in 1988. In 1990 he removed Pakistan's first female Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, and in 1993 dispatched her successor, Nawaz Sharif, over allegations of corruption and mismanagement. A Supreme Court ruling to restore Sharif to his position threw the country into turmoil, prompting an intervention by Pakistan's powerful military, which forced Khan...
...also were able to shut down the A.Q. Khan black-market network that provided that, so we've had one great success so far in the proliferation area...