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...DIVORCED. Pakistani cricketer and politician IMRAN KHAN, 51, and his wife, British socialite JEMIMA, 30; in London. Jemima, daughter of late billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, converted from Judaism to Islam and went to live modestly with her husband in Pakistan while he pursued his political career. Jemima's return to London with their two sons last year and her recent appearances at celebrity events sparked rumors that she'd had difficulty adjusting to her new life and that the marriage was in trouble. Imran called the divorce a "mutual decision," and said, "my home and my future is in Pakistan...
...FORCED TO RESIGN. ZAFARAULLAH KHAN JAMALI, 60, Prime Minister of Pakistan, after 19 months in office; in Islamabad. The country's strongman President Pervez Musharraf was displeased with Jamali for failing to endorse his policies and shield him from an increasingly restive Parliament. Jamali will be replaced by ruling Pakistan Muslim League party president Chaudry Shujat Hussain, regarded as more obedient to Musharraf...
Mohammad Yasin Khan started to suspect there was a problem when the industrial park?on the edge of Suva, Fiji's capital?began to smell like a latrine. A warehouse had been set up there to manufacture plastic furniture. But Khan, who runs a hardware store on the same block, said the factory workers seemed paranoid, avoiding conversation and reinforcing the doors and windows with metal bars. And the smell from a nearby culvert was foul. "We thought maybe it was something from the shop," he says. "The smell of the drain, it was like urine...
...experts from three nations are busy cleaning up the mess. Khan's neighbor was more than just a dirty factory. Police say it was one of the world's biggest drug labs, run by a criminal enterprise with tentacles stretching from China to the South Pacific. The crystal methamphetamine, or ice, being cooked inside the warehouse was destined, says Fiji police commissioner Andrew Hughes, for the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Europe. The cops who swooped on the building June 9?finding 5 kg of the glassy drug and enough chemicals to make a ton of it?came from Fiji...
...South Pacific isn't out of danger, says police chief Hughes, but "I think we have sent a strong message that Fiji is not as vulnerable as people thought." Suva businessman Tauz Khan, whose security-equipment and taxi companies are in the same industrial park as the drug warehouse, hopes he's right. The fight against drugs must succeed, he says: "We don't want these guys to come back here and spoil our paradise...