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The Sacramento Bee 앫 Sunday, November 11, 2007
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PAKISTAN
By Martin Zimmerman
Los Angeles Times
About 2,000 Pakistanis live in the
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area. Probably most
notorious here was actually down the road
in Lodi – Hamid Hayat, 25, spent half his
life in Pakistan, where he was accused of
undergoing terrorist
training. He was
sentenced to 24 years in
jail.
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Once part of British colonial India,
Pakistan gained independence on
Aug. 14, 1947, a day before India.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah, a leader in the
struggle for a Muslim state, became the
new nation’s first governor general.
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Western films
featuring Pakistan
or Pakistanis include
“Gandhi” (1982), “My
Beautiful Laundrette”
(1985), “Syriana”
(2005) and “A Mighty
Heart” (2007). The
Pakistani film industry,
centered in Lahore, is
referred to as
Lollywood.
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Originally, Pakistan consisted of two
territories bracketing India. In 1971,
East Pakistan became the independent
nation of Bangladesh.
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President Pervez Musharraf, left, appears on
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” last year.
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India and Pakistan have a strained
relationship that erupted into war in
1947, 1965 and 1971 – twice over the
still-disputed province of Kashmir. In the
late 1990s, both nations conducted a
series of dueling nuclear weapons tests.
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Ahmadabad
The nation covers 310,320 square
miles – about twice the size of
California. It has a population of 164.7
million. The capital of Islamabad is home
to 955,000 people.
200 miles
Former prime minister Benazir Bhutto
returned last month from eight years in exile.
Ali Bhutto served as president
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and prime minister from 1971 to
1977. Deposed by the military in 1977, he
was executed in 1979. His daughter,
Benazir Bhutto, led Pakistan from 1988
to 1990 and from 1993 to 1996, but was
removed both times on corruption charges.
She went into self-imposed exile in 1999,
returning in October.
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The Pakistani rupee is at an
11-month low at 60 rupees to one
U.S. dollar. About 24 percent of the
population lives below the poverty line.
Pervez Musharraf came to
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power in a 1999 military coup, and in
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The official language of Pakistan is
Urdu, though fewer than 10 percent
of the population speak it as their first
language.
2001 declared himself president.
Musharraf, 64, has a son (a graduate
student at Stanford University) and a
daughter (an architect). Promoting his book
“Line of Fire,” he joined “The Daily Show”
host Jon Stewart, who asked: “Where’s
Osama bin Laden?” Musharraf: “I don’t
know. … You know where he is? You lead
on, we’ll follow you.”
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Pakistani cuisine includes flat
loaves of bread called chapati,
naan or roti, cooked lentils,
vegetables, and mutton,
beef or chicken curries.
Pork is forbidden by Islam.
Lassi, a yogurt beverage
flavored with sugar or salt, is
popular.
a state of emergency,
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Musharraf suspended the constitution
Children play cricket – a passion in Pakistan –
in a park in Islamabad.
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The most common
garment for men and
women is the shalwar-qamiz,
loose trousers and a long,
knee-length shirt.
faced death threats in
2005 after locking lips
with an Indian co-star in
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a Bollywood production
titled “Nazar,” or “Sight,” the first coproduction between the two nations.
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and fired the chief justice of the Supreme
Court Nov. 3. He said the courts were
hindering the fight against extremists, but
critics call the action a last-ditch effort to
stay in power. The U.S. State Department
issued a travel warning for Pakistan in
September, noting the risk of terror attacks.
Sources: U.S. State Department, World Book Encyclopedia,
CIA World Fact Book, Associated Press, Comedy Central
Compiled by Don Sweeney/[email protected]
Bee research by Pete Basofin/[email protected]
Photos: McClatchy Tribune, Associated Press and Sacramento Bee
Graphics by Sharon Okada/[email protected]
NAMES & FACES
Girlfriend splits with Prince Harry
THE
RUNDOWN
‘View’ co-host gives birth to a boy
Chelsy Davy and Prince Harry
Prince Harry and his Zimbabwean-born
girlfriend have ended their three-year romance, a
newspaper reported today.
The News of the World said Chelsy Davy, who
has been studying at a college in England while
dating the prince, broke off the relationship
last week after losing patience with his playboy lifestyle and lack of commitment to her.
Television talk show host Elizabeth Hasselbeck has given birth to a son, ABC announced.
The co-host of “The View” gave birth Friday
to a 7-pound, 15-ounce boy at an Arizona
hospital, the network said.
Hasselbeck planned to call in to the show
Monday to announce the newborn’s name.
– From the Associated Press
THE FIVE SPOT
P
acking on a few pounds,
according to a study released
last week, might actually be good
for you. Food and diet – you gotta
take comfort in knowing you’re
pretty well off if your biggest
concerns are not where you’re
going to get your next meal, but
what’s it going to be, how much
am I going to eat, does this study
make me look fat, and what are
the celebrities eating?
앫 1. My blog is a wonderland.
Songmeister John Mayer figures
you want to know everything about
him, so at johnmayer.com/blog he
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TOKYO – Not everybody snapping pictures at the Tokyo Motor
Show is focusing on the cars.
Many of the camera-toting
folks roaming the massive exhibit halls over the past two
weeks were more interested in
the women whom automakers
and parts companies hire to
adorn their exhibits.
That’s not surprising, of
course. But in Japan, photographing lovely ladies in public places
is pursued with such enthusiasm
that there’s a name for practitioners: “camera kozo” – a kozo being a Buddhist disciple or a servant boy, although the word can
be used in a derogatory way to refer to an inexperienced youth.
At big car shows, camera kozo
– “kameko” for short – can be
seen mobbing the models, pressing in close with telephoto lenses
and snapping hundreds of images a day. Many kameko run
Web sites on which they post photos of models, invite comments
and blog about their favorites.
“We realize that we are at the
auto show for a different reason
(from most people),” said a
32-year-old information technology professional who goes by
Makuhari (the Tokyo Motor
Show is held at the Makuhari
Messe convention center).
The single-minded pursuit of
non-vehicular beauty can be irritating to exhibitors who, after all,
are trying to get attention focused
on their products.
The Tokyo Special Import Car
Show, a smaller event that focuses on non-Japanese vehicles,
has tried to ban kamekos from its
annual confab. Not that they
would ever consider giving up
the models, of course.
Attractive and often scantily
clad women have been a fixture
at auto shows and racetracks
worldwide for years. “Product
specialists,” as they’re known in
the United States, will be on hand
when the Los Angeles Auto Show
begins its 10-day run this week.
But in Japan they are something of a cultural phenomenon.
“Race queens,” who work under
contract for Japanese auto racing
teams, are especially popular,
with some attaining the status of
minor celebrities, complete with
Web sites, fan clubs and swimsuit videos.
Auto-show models generally
are less well-known. They wear
more risque outfits than their
counterparts at auto shows in the
United States and Europe.
A daily wage of about $100 is
typical for a model, whose main
function is to stand around and
look good.
Narrating product demonstrations commands higher pay – in
fact, product demonstrations and
the ability to mix easily with
strangers are often part of the job.
Makuhari typically takes 800
shots a day, although he was
shooting twice that number at
the Tokyo show.
He’ll post many on his Web
site,
racequeen.seesaa.net,
which he says gets 1,000 unique
visitors a day.
The hobby can be expensive.
Kameko are known for using expensive single-lens reflex cameras, and they travel all over Japan to attend events.
The models have mixed feelings about the kameko-san.
Miki Kataoka, who was working at the Tokyo Motor Show for
the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, said she liked
the attention and the occasional
gifts from her fans.
But the crush of attention can
be a bit much at times, not to mention the unauthorized photos
snapped by kozo determined to
catch models in embarrassing or
unintentionally lewd poses.
Kataoka said her photo appeared
on the cover of a DVD compilation without her permission.
“So I made my DVD debut without even knowing it,” much less
being paid for it, she said.
The village of Shekhanandeh clings to a
mountainside near Pakistan’s border
with Afghanistan.
“decided to make the most
personal facet of my life public.”
And that would be his meals – his
mlog – with pictures of waffles and
duck’s shepherd pie.
앫 2. Reader’s digest. Jessica
Seinfeld writes a book,
“Deceptively Delicious” (No. 2,
New York Times hardcover advice
best-seller list), and elicits
accusations that it copies “The
Sneaky Chef” (No. 4, paperback
advice). But neither compete with
the title of No. 2 on the paperback
advice list: “Skinny Bitch,” vegan
diets of the models.
앫 3. Keep your eye on … Jay
Leno brings striking writers
doughnuts from Krispy Kreme,
which has had its share of troubles
but must be somewhat elated by
the latest studies that say a little
chubbiness may be good and the
Atkins low-carb diet really can
cause heart trouble.
앫 4. But Starbucks is on every
corner. Writer Susan Cosier tries
the 100-mile diet – you eat the
food from within 100 miles of
where you live – for E/The
Environmental Magazine and
finds, damn, we just don’t grow
enough coffee and tea here.
앫 5. The waist abroad. Brits can’t
look down their noses at heavy
Americans because they are
catching up in having a hard time
seeing their toes, too. In England,
about a quarter are considered
obese compared to a third in the
U.S. The blame? Not sitting around
listening to John Mayer songs,
looking at his blog and reading diet
books. Not yet, anyway.
– Bee staff
Sources: New York Times,
USA Today, Associated Press
BIRTHDAY NEWS
앫 Jazz singer-pianist Mose Allison is 80.
앫 Actor Stanley
Tucci (“The Devil
Wears Prada”) is 47.
앫 Actress Demi
Moore (“G.I. Jane”)
is 45.
앫 Actress Calista
Flockhart (“Ally
McBeal”) is 43.
Demi Moore
앫 Actor Leonardo
DiCaprio (“Titanic”) is 33.
GONE, BUT
NOT FORGOTTEN
앫 Norman Mailer, 84, the combative,
controversial and outspoken American
novelist, died Saturday. 왘 Page B5
쐌 Hobart Brown, 73, the founder of
Ferndale’s wacky Kinetic Sculpture Race,
died Wednesday.
앫 George Osmond, 90, the patriarch
who launched the singing and
entertainment careers of the Osmond
family 45 years ago, died Tuesday.
COMING IN THE BEE
TV’s odd season
With or without the
writers’ strike, this TV
season has been an odd
one. There are good
shows out there, such as
ABC’s “Pushing Daisies,”
right, but nothing is
ringing bells with viewers.
TV columnist Rick Kushman breaks down the
season so far.
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
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Why we love
Top 10 lists
The media (and the
public) love lists. Top
10 lists of anything.
We’re now entering the
season when magazines and newspapers
do year-end lists. In
Media Savvy, we look
at the cultural trend of
list-making in the press.
A new
‘Project’
Finally, the wait
is over. A new
season (the
fourth) of
“Project Runway” debuts
tonight on Bravo. Fashion writer Leigh
Grogan talks to host/judge Heidi Klum and
mentor Tim Gunn, who agree the 15
designers will wow us with their wardrobes.
OUTPUT: 11/10/07
On top of the world
UC Davis student Tanner Bixler
is preparing to tackle the highest mountain on earth in the
spring. Staff writer Bill Lindeloff
tells how Bixler is planning his
journey in Outbound.
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