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...Many in India argue that there are few alternatives, since the country's judicial system is tainted by corruption and crippled by backlog. Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, India's most famous cop for helping put down the Sikh insurgency in Punjab state in the 1990s, is blunt: "Our legal system doesn't work at all. If there are no legal remedies, there'll be extralegal ones...
...Early in his career Mittal was aware of the importance of leverage. After graduating from college in 1976, he set up a 25-employee bicycle-crankshaft factory in his hometown of Ludhiana in the northwestern province of Punjab. Part of the seed capital was $400 from his family?although his late father was a member of India's Parliament, he was no tycoon. After Mittal parlayed the business into one large enough to be creditworthy, he made sure to carry a table tennis paddle in his pocket whenever he visited his local banker. The manager loved to play, so Mittal...
...Musharraf has plainly given the religious groups more free rein in the campaign than he has allowed the two big parties that were his main rivals. In Jhang city, in Punjab province, Maulana Azam Tariq, leader of an outlawed extremist group called Sipah-e-Sahaba, which has been linked to numerous sectarian killings, is being allowed to run as an independent?despite election laws that disqualify any candidate who has criminal charges pending, or even those who did not earn a college degree. "It makes no sense that Benazir can't run in the election," says one Islamabad-based diplomat...
...last time Bashir Ahmed saw his nephew was one morning three years ago in their modest home in Gujrat, an industrial town in Pakistan's Punjab province. Mohzam Siddique was wearing the brown shalwar kameez his mother had ironed the night before and carried a spare in a plastic shopping bag. "All he said was that he was going to a public rally," recalls Ahmed, who had taken care of Siddique's family ever since the lad's father, a Pakistani artilleryman, was killed by Indian soldiers in a firefight in Kashmir in 1980, when Siddique was just...
Originally from the Indian state of Punjab, Gill has been living in Boston for 20 years...