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White Christmas In Islamabad

Outside of Lahore, where Kipling cut his teeth as a cub reporter a century ago, a palace built by a local political dynasty in the 1990's has become the center of operations for Tablihi Jamaat. The  eighty year old  Deobandi sect owes its present popularity to recruiting Junaid Jamshed , the lead singer in Vital Signs,who now sings only devotional songs, and converting several stars of the national cricket team. Its influence in Pakistan's British Diaspora is such that it seeks to build the world's largest mosque adjacent to  London's new Olympics site.So what is Musharraf doing about it as an electoral crisis looms?

Having appointed his intelligence chief as interim President, he's telling people to go to the movies and see Khuda Kay Liye

Hot Blubbered Popcorn Movie

Film critic Jeanette Catsoulis of
The New York Times
gives two tusks down to Arctic Tale :

"Displaying more corn than is usually found at the North Pole, “Arctic Tale” documents the travails of a polar bear cub and a walrus pup as they struggle toward adulthood on diminishing quantities of ice... pop songs and unbridled flatulence are givens

[Arctic Tale ] written in part by Al Gore’s daughter Kristin uses its narrative artifice to serve the greater good...

if you can get past Sister Sledge belting “We Are Family”..... the movie’s stunning underwater photography...effectively dilutes the saccharine tone. Still, adults may squirm at...Queen Latifah’s cloying narration.

“Meanwhile, Seela’s tusks have filled out nicely, and the boys are taking notice,”