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...launch a jihad against Musharraf's regime - in recent weeks, the country has been rocked by bomb blasts. Musharraf's political rivals sense his weakness. "If he thinks that by sending Sharif into exile he is going to save his own skin, he is sorely mistaken," says Imran Khan, the former cricket star who now heads an opposition party. "The whole country has no choice but to unite in the movement against him." Says former Law Minister Iftikhar Gilani: "This is the death spasm of the general's rule. He can't survive as a political entity...
...wasn't just party leaders who were detained. Khurshid Ahmed Khan, a flour mill owner dressed in a simple shalwar kameeze, had started out from Peshawar on Sunday with a party of some 800 supporters. By the time they reached the airport, the party was down to one. All the others had been stopped at barricades blocking the roads into the capital. The only reason he was able to get to the airport, he says, was that he had had the foresight to buy an outgoing air ticket that day and was, thus, technically a passenger. He called himself...
...Coverage of the two men is a study in contrasts. Many Indians see Dutt as mistreated. Even the judge who heard his case and sentenced Dutt urged the actor to continue making films after his release from prison. Coverage of Khan, Bollywood's eternal enfant terrible, on the other hand, has been less sympathetic. Television anchors constantly remind viewers that Khan faces charges of shooting endangered animals, in a separate incident, and is also in the final stages of a trial over an incident in which he is alleged to have run over and killed a homeless person while driving...
...channels have continued to find new angles to present the same stories and the same footage over and over again. Legal experts and social scientists have been brought out to hail Dutt and Khan's sentences - at the end of court cases that dragged on for 14 and 9 years, respectively - as a triumph of justice over influence, and even stardom...
...Film industry experts, however, have mourned the $25 million and $10 million riding on Dutt's and Khan's still-to-be-shot films. And fans have expressed dismay at the "excessive" sentences. This week's big kerfuffle was over a policeman who hugged Dutt after his release on bail. The officer was suspended for inappropriate behavior, but was later absolved at a local politician's request...