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...appealed a similar conviction last year, she was back in a Geneva courtroom last week to face more serious allegations involving some $13.8 million. Bhutto, who heads the opposition Pakistan People's Party from her self-imposed exile in London and Dubai, claims the charges are part of a Pakistani-government smear campaign against...
...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...
...Lakshya (which roughly translates as "aim" or "focus") follows an urban slacker (Hrithik Roshan) who joins the Indian army on a whim and winds up finding heroic purpose fighting Pakistani troops who crossed into Indian-controlled Kashmir in 1999. The tragic context of a conflict that has cost up to 70,000 lives offers ample opportunity for that staple of Bollywood film: copious melodrama. Akhtar isn't so radical as to depart from such essential ingredients of the genre: song and dance, boy meets girl, and plenty of tears are all there. But everything is deftly updated. In the first...
Last Thursday night, a rocket fired by the Pakistani army arced across the sky of Waziristan and slammed into an adobe farmhouse, instantly killing five men, including tribal chieftain Nek Mohammed, its intended target. An ex-Taliban commander fond of flamboyant turbans, firearms and having his own way in the largely lawless region of Waziristan, Mohammed was wanted on both sides of the nearby border with Afghanistan?by U.S. forces and the Pakistani army?for aiding and giving refuge to fighters from Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda...
...After signing the truce, Mohammed had become a hero in South Waziristan. DVDs of him appeared in the bazaars, showing him presenting a rusty sword to Pakistani officers during the cease-fire ceremony, his only compliance with his promise to disarm. Mohammed rumbled around in a pickup truck mounted with a machine gun and appeared in public with a brace of Chechen and Arab bodyguards, on loan from al-Qaeda, say tribesmen. Two weeks ago, Mohammed took a second bride, a teenager...