Word: nazim
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Khan, now 47, didn't necessarily want to be a king. But with after-tax winnings of $32,499,939.24 in his pocket, he decided to return to his native town of Batagram in the Himalayas and run for nazim, or mayor. "I wanted to make changes," he says. "Bring back the good things I saw in America." Khan got his chance...
...ranks. However, the President is being more cautious. Last weekend, 10,000 security personnel, including soldiers brandishing machine guns at key intersections in Islamabad, descended on the capital in preparation for the regional South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) conference. And last week's oath-taking by Nazim Hussain Siddiqi, the new Chief Justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court, was held at Musharraf's Rawalpindi residence rather than the grand presidential palace in Islamabad, the customary venue. "That's like having your Chief Justice sworn in at the Pentagon," says Aitzaz Ahsan, an opposition parliamentarian...
...Middle-class Pakistanis wonder if he's become yet another slippery pol, although few accuse him of the corruption that tainted civilian administrations of the past. Businessmen think he's the only person who can hold Pakistan together, at least for the next few years. "If he dies," says Nazim Haji, a Karachi-based industrialist, "there will be total chaos and confusion. We don't have institutions...
...Prison claim they are the epicenter of the repression. "They torture and kill, then they hang the bodies from a bedsheet so it looks like suicide," says one 36-year-old prisoner speaking on a smuggled mobile phone, who says he has seen 12 inmates die this way. Ahmed Nazim, 27, an opposition spokesman, rages that Gayoom has spread "fear" across the islands with a "culture of torture and abuse." On Sept. 19 guards at Maafushi beat to death inmate Hassan Eevan Naseem, a convicted drug abuser, sparking a riot in which three prisoners were shot dead. After Naseem...
...times, a threat concealed a promise. In 1997, Shakeel asked an obscure producer named Nazim Rizvi to shelve a film because it might heighten Hindu-Muslim tensions. "I have told him to make proper films and assured him that his costs will be taken care of," Shakeel told time, adding, "If the director doesn't abide by my decision, I'll just have to kill him." Rizvi obliged. Three years later, Rizvi made the lavish Chori Chori Chupke Chupke with a brilliant cast that was not only expensive but booked for other films years in advance. Shakeel had come through...