Brotherly Bond
19 March 2011 Last updated at 01:20 GMT
// Teenage carer bullied over having ‘small’ family
Fourteen-year-old Ethan has a tough time helping care for his younger brother and his mother who have a form of dwarfism called skeletal dysplasia.
“The best thing about being smaller than everyone else is that you can fit down the back of the sofa, and it’s handy for when you’re playing hide and seek and things, because you can hide where everyone else can’t,” said 10-year-old Aidan.
Ethan’s little brother Aidan has a genetic condition which means his bones did not develop properly, affecting his height and movement. He inherited it from his mother, Michelle, and it means Aidan often has to use a wheelchair.
Michelle said: “It affects all our joints and it’s a curvature of the spine, which Aidan has had corrected, and also all the long bones are curved as well.”
Aidan and Ethan, who are from Cambridge, have a unique relationship.
While their father Lee, who is a support worker for adults with disabilities, is at work, Ethan helps get Aidan dressed and takes him to school, as well as help his mother cook dinner and with housework.
Ethan said: “Sometimes I get annoyed, but that’s life and you just have to get on with it.”
But sometimes helping his brother can cause friction between the pair.
Aidan said: “It can be a bit frustrating when I want to do something myself and Ethan comes in and helps.
“(But) Sometimes it can be good because you don’t have to do everything when you can’t sort of do it yourself.”
Ethan has found that the toughest thing to cope with was bullying, which has been so bad he has been forced to move schools.
“People at my old school used to take the Mick – like calling my mum a midget and oompa loompa,” he said.
“I’ve found not to tell anyone at school. Over the years I’ve had quite a bit of bullying.
“In my old school, how it started was they’d ask why my mum was small and I’d tell them that she was born with a bone condition and they just thought it was funny.”
At the height of the bullying, Ethan was walking home from a party with his mother when he was attacked in the street by a stranger.
“A boy just walked up to us and started shouting he then pushed me off my bike, and I hurt my knee and my hand, and he started hitting me and kicking me, asking me who I was.
“I didn’t reply and he retaliated more. I managed to get away on my bike and he threw a glass bottle at me and it hit me in the back.”
He reported the assault to the police, and his attacker was sentenced to 80 hours of community service.
He said: “The advice I’d give someone who’s getting bullied is to tell someone and not suffer in silence.”
Living with limited movement also means Aidan has to face daily challenges.
He was desperate to regain his independence and walk up stairs by himself, and after an operation to straighten his legs, he underwent intensive therapy to build up his strength.
The 10-year-old needed hydrotherapy treatment, but feared water, as earlier in life he had had a breathing tube.
But after some initial fears, he embraced the pool.
“When I got in the pool for the first time, I was very wobbly. But then afterwards I didn’t want to get out again,” Aidan said.
But he already has set himself a new challenge: “I’d like to play football next.”
Ethan has also set himself a challenge, to become a DJ. After studying the craft in music lessons with his friends, he played in front of his school friends at a school disco for the first time.
He wanted Aidan to share the experience, and got him on stage with him. And that brotherly support meant he had the confidence to perform.
“It’s quite scary but once Aidan came on I really enjoyed it. It really helped when I was helping him.”
Reference Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12758501
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Why Norway deported its 'Norwegian of the year'
By Lars Bevanger
Oslo
Madina Salamova’s book attracted the attention of the governmentNorway has arrested and deported a young Russian woman who was crowned “Norwegian of the year” after writing a book about her life as an illegal immigrant.
Her fate prompted nationwide public protests against the asylum laws, and the centre-left coalition government has been left shaken.
Maria Amelie, 25, real name Madina Salamova, captured the hearts of many Norwegians with “Illegally Norwegian”, a book describing her fleeing the Russian republic of North Ossetia as a child and going underground with her parents when their asylum application was rejected.
Maria Amelie somehow managed to evade Norway’s immigration authorities for eight years while learning fluent Norwegian, getting a university degree and then writing her best-selling book.
“I was born in the Caucasus but I have spent more than half of my life fleeing,” she told Norwegian media when it was published last autumn.
“A large part of my life I have spent in Norway, so I feel Norwegian and my friends call me Norwegian. I feel this is where I belong.”
‘Tremendous boost’
Ms Salamova was detained when she reported in to police in OsloMaria Amelie calls herself a paperless immigrant – someone whose asylum application has been denied and consequently has no papers and no citizen rights.
Her frank book and remarkable integration into Norwegian society endeared her to the Norwegian people and media.
A weekly news magazine awarded her the title “Norwegian of the year” in 2010 but the book also blew her cover.
Many of the people demonstrating against her deportation argue that paperless immigrants should be granted the right to work, pay taxes and access Norway’s public health service while they appeal for their situation to be resolved.
Solomon from Ethiopia demonstrated in Oslo earlier this week. He says he has been a paperless immigrant in Norway for 10 years, and that Maria Amelie’s book has helped throw light on his and many others’ situations.
“It was a tremendous boost,” he says.
“She’s a voice for the voiceless – those who are living in hiding themselves and living in a very, very difficult situation.”
Maria Amelie was 12 when her parents fled North Ossetia, after her father’s business empire crumbled when he backed the losing party in the 1998 parliamentary elections.
Their lives were suddenly at risk from creditors and gangsters, they said, and it was not enough to get asylum.
Her parents are still in hiding.
Child migrant
Madina Salamova flew to MoscowMarie Amelie’s lawyer, Brynjulf Risnes, feels Norway’s immigration authorities fail in their mandate to also consider human factors.
“The obvious human factor in this case is that she came as a child, and a child should not be responsible for what her parents have done,” he told the BBC.
“Another factor is that her integration into society is obviously unique. Her opponents say we can’t treat her differently because of this but this is not the correct legal argument because the law actually does want to reward this kind of argument.”
Yet Norway’s Prime Minister, Jens Stoltenberg, has stood firm throughout this case. Speaking on national television, he said he understood why people were demonstrating.
“But my task is to make sure we execute a fair refugee and asylum policy, so we have to treat people on an equal basis, [so] that those who are in need of protection are the ones who are allowed to stay,” Mr Stoltenberg said.
His Labour Party faces a right-of-centre opposition ready to attack any sign of weakness on immigration. The government’s minority partner, the Socialist Left Party, is keen to ease immigration laws, and this has led to serious tensions within the government.
But critics say the government need not have bent any rules to allow Maria Amelie to stay.
John Peder Egenaes, head of Amnesty International Norway, said: “Norway is one of the few countries that have not at any point had any kind of regularisation of these people’s situations.
“I believe six million people have undergone so-called regularisation in Europe.
“It basically means their status as illegal is changed to legal. And this has never happened in Norway. We are just creating a paperless underclass right now.”
Maria Amelie’s supporters hope she will now be able to apply for a work permit from Russia and return as a legal Russian immigrant worker.
Meanwhile thousands of other paperless immigrants in Norway will continue their fight for more rights and what they see as a fairer hearing for their cases.
Reference Link : http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12309321
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Viira Cabs: Lady chauffeurs for Mumbai
By Alisha Patel 27 January, 2011
Viira is a cab service for women, a female driver bureau, a recruitment agency and a motor training school.
Revathi Roy is a rally car driver turned entrepreneur in a simple cotton sari. Have you ever met a woman like that before?
Roy started Forsche (as in Porsche) in 2007, a cab service for women only, which was borne out of financial necessity. With a husband in a coma and a child at MIT, making ends meet was difficult.
Her new company employed and trained women to be strong drivers at a time when, she says, “No one had ever heard of a commercial driver being a woman.”
Her success in training India’s first female taxi drivers is evident on the streets of Mumbai, the city she calls ‘home.’
Thanks to ideological differences with an ally, Roy recently let go of her brainchild, to start her newest driving (ad)venture — Viira Cabs. The company, officially launched on January 17, was started by Roy and Preeti Sharma Menon, a friend of Roy’s who was looking to do something new.
Viira, meaning courageous woman, is unique in its structure.
Whilst it’s a cab service for women, it’s also a female driver bureau, a recruitment agency and a motor training school.
All drivers, whether part of the regular cab-service or whether hired by customers as personal chauffeurs, go through a training program of which the company ought to be proud.
For Rs 10,000 and over a period of three months, women at Viira’s motor training school undergo 155 hours of driving in addition to classes on road knowledge, traffic signs, martial arts, customer relations, etiquette and grooming!
Once trained, many of these women are recruited by large corporations and hotels. Today, some of them can be seen at the front of a BMW.
How did Roy come up with such a great idea?
“Viira came about because I saw a need,” Roy says. “It was just a normal business.”
When I ask her whether it was a result of high rates of sexual harassment in the city, or perhaps a reaction to cultural sensitivities, she shakes her head vehemently.
The entrepreneurs, however, know that her “normal business” isn’t exactly ordinary. It has empowered hundreds of young women by recognizing that driving is a skill that can given many Mumbai ladies a dignified living — apart from a whole lot of confidence.
“Viira is a very powerful platform for poor, urban women who are now able to earn up to Rs 12,000 a month. I see this every day. My hope now is to go to Tier 2 cities where Indian women are most starved of opportunities,” Roy says.
Do women make good drivers, then?
“It’s a misnomer to say women are bad drivers. Driving really has nothing to do with ones gender. It is a skill. Either you have it or you don’t.”
But Viira’s USP, beyond being all-female, is undoubtedly its service. A quick look at the inside of a Maruti Eco Viira cab and you’ll know precisely what that means.
Every woman has to wear blue jeans and a striped shirt with polished black shoes. In addition, Viira has given its drivers silver nail polish, pink lipstick and a pair of pearl earrings. As they smile for a picture, it is more than apparent that Roy is a veritable, sub-continental Professor Higgins.
But if these gentle-looking creatures are harassed, God help you.
“If drivers find eve teasers they’ve been told to just hammer them. We’ve put pepper spray and batons in every single car. We’ll deal with the cops later,” quips the co-founder.
While Roy thinks there’s a market for this kind of business in many cities, she knows that it is Mumbai’s relative safety that has made her ventures possible.
Her hope is that Viira will increase the mobility of senior citizens and young girls who will feel much safer in the hands of a trained, female driver.
“The attitude of Indian mothers is changing. Now they know their daughters go out and drink. They realize they may as well keep them safe by putting them in the hands of a woman who at all times is playing the role of a mother or a sister. A man can’t be a woman. And just because a woman is sitting at the wheel she doesn’t become a man.”
So what’s next?
Roy and Menon are currently working on an rickshaw project for women. Driven by women and for women only, these autos will be available outside railways stations and will be meant for women to share. So what if a man is accompanying a woman?
“No men allowed at all! No, no, no! We don’t want them!” Roy concludes.
To book a Viira cab call +91 (0) 22 6120 6120 or email info@viiracabs.com; www.viiracabs.com
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The Healers of 9/11
This weekend, a Jewish woman who lost her husband in the 9/11 attacks is planning to speak at a mosque in Boston. She will be trying to recruit members of the mosque to join her battle against poverty and illiteracy in Afghanistan.
Susan Retik
The woman, Susan Retik, has pursued perhaps the most unexpected and inspiring American response to the 9/11 attacks. This anniversary of Sept. 11 feels a little ugly to me, with some planning to remember the day with hatred and a Koran-burning — and that makes her work all the more exhilarating.
In the shattering aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, Ms. Retik bonded with another woman, Patti Quigley, whose husband had also died in the attack. They lived near each other, and both were pregnant with babies who would never see their fathers.
Devastated themselves, they realized that there were more than half a million widows in Afghanistan — and then, with war, there would be even more. Ms. Retik and Ms. Quigley also saw that Afghan widows could be a stabilizing force in that country.
So at a time when the American government reacted to the horror of 9/11 mostly with missiles and bombs, detentions and waterboardings, Ms. Retik and Ms. Quigley turned to education and poverty-alleviation projects — in the very country that had incubated a plot that had pulverized their lives.
The organization they started, Beyond the 11th, has now assisted more than 1,000 Afghan widows in starting tiny businesses. It’s an effort both to help some of the world’s neediest people and to fight back at the distrust, hatred and unemployment that sustain the Taliban.
“More jobs mean less violence,” Ms. Retik noted. “It would be naïve to think that we can change the country, but change has to start somewhere. If we can provide a skill for a woman so that she can provide for her family going forward, then that’s one person or five people who will have a roof over their head, food in their bellies and a chance for education.”
In times of fear and darkness, we tend to suppress the better angels of our nature. Instead, these women unleashed theirs.
Paul Barker, who for many years ran CARE’s operations in Afghanistan, believes America would have accomplished more there if our government had shared the two women’s passion for education and development. “I can only wonder at what a different world it could be today if in those fateful months after 9/11 our nation’s leadership had been guided more by a people-to-people vision of building both metaphorical and physical bridges,” Mr. Barker said.
A terrific documentary, “Beyond Belief,” follows Ms. Retik and Ms. Quigley as they raise funds for Afghan widows and finally travel to Afghanistan to visit the women they had been helping. Ms. Quigley has since stepped down from Beyond the 11th because she felt in danger of becoming a perpetual 9/11 poster widow, but she still is working on a series of Afghan initiatives. Ms. Retik, who has since remarried, remains focused on the charity.
Beyond the 11th began by buying small chicken flocks for widows so that they could sell eggs. Another major project was to build a women’s center in the city of Bamian, where the women weave carpets for export. The center, overseen by an aid group called Arzu, also offers literacy classes and operates a bakery as a business.
Another initiative has been to train Afghan women, through a group called Business Council for Peace, to run a soccer ball manufacturing company. The bosses have been coached in quality control, inventory management and other skills, and they have recruited unemployed widows to stitch the balls — which are beginning to be exported under the brand Dosti.
Ms. Retik’s next step will be to sponsor a microfinance program through CARE. There are also plans to train attendants to help reduce deaths in childbirth.
Will all of this turn Afghanistan into a peaceful country? Of course not. Education and employment are not panaceas. But the record suggests that schools and economic initiatives do tend over time to chip away at fundamentalism — and they’re also cheap.
All the work that Beyond the 11th has done in Afghanistan over nine years has cost less than keeping a single American soldier in Afghanistan for eight months.
I admire Ms. Retik’s work partly because she offers an antidote to the pusillanimous anti-Islamic hysteria that clouds this anniversary of 9/11. Ms. Retik offers an alternative vision by reaching out to a mosque and working with Muslims so that in the future there will be fewer widows either here or there.
Her work is an invigorating struggle to unite all faiths against those common enemies of humanity, ignorance and poverty — reflecting the moral and mental toughness that truly can chip away at terrorism.
Patti Quigley, Beth Murphy, Susan Retik
Reference Link
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Obama's special envoy hails Super 30
‘Super 30′, which provides free coaching to underprivileged Indian Institute of Technology aspirants, received praise from United States President Barack Obama’s special envoy Rashad Hussain, who termed it the “best” institute in the country.
“Super 30 is the best institute in India and an example of change, a dream which U.S. President Barack Obama harbours in the field of education, irrespective of caste and creed,” Mr. Obama’s special envoy to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference said here.
“In India wherever I have gone, I find it the best thing I have come across.”
After meeting students at the institute, the envoy, accompanied by officials of the U.S. Consulate in Kolkata, said he was overwhelmed by the academic atmosphere on the campus.
The institute, which was recently featured by Time magazine as “the best school in Asia,” has the distinction of all its 30 students making it to the prestigious IITs for the third consecutive year.
“This is a very good beginning. People irrespective of caste and creed are living like members of a community. And back in the U.S., I will discuss the experience of ‘Super 30′ and ‘Samman’ and explore if anything could be done there,” Mr. Hussain, an Indian-American whose father hailed from Bihar, said. Mr. Hussain visited the ‘Samman Foundation,’ which provides healthcare services to rickshaw pullers, their family members and the unorganised migrant labourers, on Saturday.
He assured the students at the institute, founded by mathematician Anand Kumar, that he would convey their invitation to Mr. Obama to visit them during his coming India visit.
The Obama administration was committed to bringing social harmony, just as it was maintained under the roof of ‘Super 30,’ he said.
Mr. Anand Kumar, who himself could not pursue higher studies abroad due to poverty, has been giving full scholarships, including travel and stay, to a select batch of 30 poor students since 2002.
Altogether 212 of the 240 ‘Super 30′ students have cleared one of the country’s toughest exams during the last eight years. Discovery Channel had also made an hour-long documentary on the institute.
Reference Link
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City boy bags silver in international olympiad
Hashmi among 4-member Indian team which won one gold and three silver medals — Photo: NAGARA GOPAL
Keep it up: Syed Mustafa Hashmi with the silver medal he won at the 21st International Biology Olympiad held in Korea.
Hyderabad: Perseverance and hardwork never go unpaid. You only have to be focussed on your goal and work towards it. Perhaps, 17 year-old Hyderabadi boy Syed Mustafa Hashmi knew this when he started preparing for the 21 {+s} {+t} International Biology Olympiad which was held in Changwon, Korea from July 11 to 15.
And it paid off. Mr. Hashmi, who was among the four member team from India, won a silver medal in the international Olympiad, making his parents, relatives and teachers proud. In all, the Indian team won one gold and three silver medals.
The phone has not stopped ringing ever since at his residence in Masab Tank and the bright young boy cannot hold back his grin.
“There were over 240 students from different countries participating in the five day event. It was a wonderful experience interacting and competing with them. The Olympiad had theory and practical. Though the theory part was easy, it was the practical which was difficult yet we pulled through,” says an exuberant Hashmi.
“But, I feel that Indian students are good at theory and lag behind in practicals. We were given a task to analyse DNA finger-printing. Though we completed it somehow, we saw other students were pretty comfortable,” says the 17 year-old
Proud parents
His parents – S. Khalid Hashmi and Asima Hashmi proudly show his accomplishments, which is a cupboard full of medals, mementoes and certificates that the young boy won in several academic competitions.
“We are really proud and happy for him. He has been an outstanding student through out and is an inspiration to his siblings. Though he has got through most of the entrance exams, he still wants to study in Hyderabad and is keen on pursuing MBBS from Osmania Medical College,” says S. Khalid Hashmi.
Reference Link
http://www.hindu.com/2010/07/21/stories/2010072159290300.htm
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The Hindu
Dreamers: The Digg Idea
How one man parlayed a childhood fascination with computers into one of the nation’s most-visited news websites.
For two months after he launched digg.com, Kevin Rose didn’t need an alarm clock. “By 6 a.m., I was up and on the computer,” he recalls. “It was the sheer fear of not knowing what was on my own home page
.”
Here’s why: Seasoned editors do not deliberate over Digg’s front page. It’s strictly a popularity contest. Users post news stories and images—found anywhere from the websites of big newspapers to small blogs—and with the click of a button, other users either “digg” the items (meaning they like them) or “bury” them (meaning they don’t). On a given day, you can find breaking news about Iraq next to such headlines as “Bacon Flavored Jelly Beans!” and “Another Road Sign Warns of Zombies.” “Sometimes you’ll look at two headlines and say, No sane editor would ever put these next to each other,” says Rose, 32. “That’s part of the charm.”
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Today, the site gets 35 million different visitors a month. One link from Digg’s home page can produce a tsunami of traffic that can turn a Web newcomer into a real player—or crash an ill-equipped smaller site. And investors are banking on the idea’s value; just last September, Digg secured $28.7 million in new venture-capital funding. Many believe Digg is worth much more: Last summer, Google was reportedly in talks to buy it for $200 million. (Neither company will comment.)
Rose says a big cash-in was never part of his plan. When he started Digg, he thought, “If this can pay my rent and I can chill in my apartment and drink my tea and have an awesome little office, that’d be more than I could ask for.” It’s the kind of dream you’d expect from a Web wunderkind. As a child in Las Vegas, Rose was “the most unpopular kid in school,” who at age eight spent hours on his family’s Commodore 64, typing code to summon an animated balloon. In the early ’90s, he persuaded his parents to buy him his own computer, which he used to talk tech with other “nerds” in chat rooms.
Rose’s passion sometimes took precedence over schoolwork, prompting his mother to confiscate his keyboard when bad report cards arrived. “I drilled a hole in my desk and put a chain through it so she couldn’t take it again,” Rose says. At 15, he was repairing computers. By 19, he had a computer-support job at the Department of Energy’s Nevada Test Site while he was going to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. And by 21, he’d dropped out and moved to Silicon Valley.
Rose came up with the idea for Digg in 2004 while hosting a cable news show about tech trends. Social networking sites like Facebook had just taken off, drawing users who could post photos, links, and video and then talk about them. Rose created a site that would take that approach to news. It debuted in November 2004. “It was an experiment,” he says. “I wanted to see what kind of news would surface and whether it would be of good quality.” But when the number of people visiting Digg reached a few thousand a month—enough to garner ads—Rose quit his day job. By 2005, Digg’s monthly traffic had hit 200,000, and he’d hired a CEO and a staff and raised $2.8 million. Today, Digg is among the most-visited sites in the United States.
Like many sites, Digg hasn’t yet figured out how to transform its traffic into profit. Nonetheless, it continues to evolve. Digg now recommends stories to users based on other stories they like. It also lets them vote on questions they want to ask politicians and celebrities.
In the meantime, Rose is sleeping through the night. He still checks the home page every morning when he gets up. But he makes a cup of tea first, then sits back to enjoy the mutiny.Getting Ahead with Kevin Rose
A. Oh, absolutely. Back in 2000, just to get a site off the ground, you had to buy expensive servers. There weren’t as many freelance developers. Now you can get a rented server for $100 or less per month and hire a freelance coder for 10 to 12 bucks an hour and get off the ground for a few thousand dollars.
Q. What’s your advice for someone who wants to launch a site?
A. People spend too much time planning and trying to get everything perfect before they launch. You’re never going to know what users think until you get a site into their hands. Get something out there, find out what the community thinks, then refine and rerelease, refine and rerelease. You’re going to get a lot of things wrong, and that’s okay. You can always kill anything you don’t like. Other than that, hold off as long as possible before taking investments, because the longer you wait, the higher your valuation and the less of your company you’ll have to give away.
Q. Are you ever off the computer?
A. It’s easy to get lost in the computer; I probably spend 12 to 14 hours a day on it. But on the weekends, I need to unplug. As I get older, I realize I can’t live online. It’s going to burn me out or kill me. I also just got glasses for the first time in my life.
Q. What’s the best business advice you’ve ever gotten?
A. You don’t have to work for other people; you can do your own thing and it can work out. Also, do something you love. In my family, we’ve each followed our passions in life. That’s the most important thing.
Q. Are there certain entrepreneurs or businesspeople who’ve inspired you?
A. Growing up, it was Bill Gates for sure. And of course, Steve Jobs. I love the fact that he pays extreme attention to detail in his products. There’s something about opening an Apple product and everything from the lettering on the manual to the way it’s packaged is perfect—that means a lot.
Reference Link
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Why the world needs Wikileaks
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Cleaner wins acclaim after handing in $50,000 cash
Mr Khan has been invited to Lahore to receive an award for his good deed
A Pakistani hotel employee has won acclaim after handing in over $50,000 (£33,000) in cash that had been left behind by a guest.
Essa Khan, 51, discovered the money in $100 notes left in the room of a Japanese worker at the Serena Hotel in Gilgit.
Mr Khan, who earns about 21,000 rupees ($235; £153) a month, says he never considered keeping the money.
He has been invited to receive an award from a state governor for his honesty.
“My duty with the hotel and my family upbringing teaches me nothing else,” he said.
“Times are hard for everyone, but that doesn’t mean we should start stealing and taking things which do not belong to us.”
‘Relieved’
The father-of-five says he hopes the incident will help portray his country in a good light.
The Pakistani government has been riddled with accusations of corruption.
“I want people around the world to know that there are many good people in Pakistan – everybody is not a terrorist here.”
Hotel manager Rajid Uddin told the BBC there had been similar instances where lost items had been returned, but none “on this magnitude”.
He said the guest had been relieved when the cash was found.
“He was naturally very worried as he wasn’t able to figure out where he had lost the money,” he said.
Mr Khan said he had already received an award from the hotel, and that Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab, had congratulated him and invited him to Lahore for a ceremony.
Reference Link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/south_asia/10603417.stm
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