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...This was a major lapse of security," cricket legend turned politician Imran Khan tells TIME. "Having guaranteed the Sri Lankan team security, they failed to provide them even with the type of security given to a government minister. This could have been a mammoth tragedy. If the grenades hit them inside the bus, it could have blown up the whole team. And astonishingly, how were they allowed to get away...
...save lives, to save the officers and their families." An error would have been unthinkable. "The PM had to take a decision in real time. If they had stormed the compound and it had gone wrong, it could have been an even worse catastrophe," says Brig. Gen. Shahedul Anam Khan, an ex-senior army officer and an authority on strategic affairs. Now, the Prime Minister has to hope that the investigation supports her decision - and that new revelations do not exacerbate the carefully calibrated relationship between an army used to taking charge and the new civilian government...
...many artists in India actually work. Their world is the world - not just India - and they proudly learn, borrow and are influenced by everything around them. That was obvious in the Japanese taiko drummers pounding behind Rahman on his Oscar-nominated song "O Saya." And anyone who noticed Irrfan Khan as Jamal's interrogator ought to have a look at his other, much more substantial role in A Mighty Heart, playing a Pakistani police captain opposite an American superstar in a British film...
...seven-year battle since 2001 to set Afghanistan back on its feet after more than two decades at war, the country's historical sites have been ignored. Its ancient heritage has fallen victim to an epidemic of pillaging on par with the depredations of Genghis Khan's army that in 1220 left the city of Balkh in ruins. Unauthorized excavation on the scale of organized crime is carried out by professional gangs supported by local warlords and even government officials, with ties to the international black market in antiquities. While estimates of this illicit trade vary widely, government authorities...
...country. But it was the fall of the Taliban in December 2001, and the subsequent power vacuum, that unleashed the most devastating rape of Afghanistan's heritage to date. "Ironically, poverty and war are what kept these sites safe," says Jolyon Leslie, head of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, which promotes the rehabilitation of Afghanistan's cultural heritage. In times of conflict, civilians were afraid to leave home, he says, and the fear of land mines kept many from digging. Now that a nationwide campaign to clear the mines is bearing fruit, looters are returning to sites that have...