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January 29, 2008
The Pakistani government, through a recommendation from the Senate Standing Committee on Sports, Culture & Youth Affairs, is mulling ending a 40-year-old ban on the public screening of Indian-made feature films. "Bollywood" were banned in 1965 during the war between the two rivals. "We have devised a mechanism for allowing the import of Indian films for a period of one year, after which the arrangements can be reviewed," Committee Chair Sen. Zafar Iqbal Chaudhry told the Press Trust of India.
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October 22, 2007
Topics asia, europe, vietnam, pakistan, thailand, travel, india, bar, china, london, sex, money and horse
After traveling for more than 6,000 miles covering at least 19 countries mostly in Asia and Europe commencing in Hong Kong for more than four months, two British adventurers are now back in London - on horseback - still in their tuxedos. British Heath Buck and American Doug Campbell said they came up with the idea on raising funds for a charity when they met in a Hong Kong bar.
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May 22, 2007
Topics couple, marriage, woman, sex, man, pakistan, breast, doctors, face, law, life and money
A Pakistani court has sent a couple to jail for entering into wedlock because the "husband" is a woman. The union was ruled a "same sex marriage," which is a criminal offense in Pakistan. Judge Khwaja Mohammad Sharif at Lahore High Court said in his ruling Tuesday, "It's an illegal and un-Islamic marriage which is not sustainable under the law. " The couple, Shamail Raj and Shehzina Tariq, married last September. However, the bride's father filed a case against the husband suspecting him of being a woman and lead to the arrest of the couple last Saturday.
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April 4, 2007
Topics prince, people, princess, pakistan, easter, share, birthday, happy, bbc, radio, real, love, black and boy
Britain's Prince Charles has revealed his favorite gardening outfit is a pair of black wellies and an old embroidered coat resembling a dressing gown. Charles posed in his comfortable get-up ahead of an interview with BBC Radio 4's 'Gardeners' Question Time', marking the show's 60th anniversary. The prince often dons his camel-colored wool coat - believed to have been a gift from Pakistan - for time pottering in the garden.
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March 8, 2007
A man from Pakistan stooped to the lowest levels of morality by convincing doctors to remove his wife's kidney so he could sell it and buy a used tractor. Safia Thaheem Bibi's discovered the missing kidney when she returned to the hospital for an unrelated problem. Upon her return home, the suspicious Bibi confronted her husband and found he received $1,100 for her kidney and bought a used tractor to use in his rice fields.
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