Zar Gul sets out to destroy Yar Badshah and expose the criminal elements behind him.

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In the climactic shoot-out, Zar Gul may wield two handguns, but this is no John Woo fantasy.

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Zar Gul is in sharp contrast to the gaudy-but-coy bump-and-grind movies normally churned out by Lahore's studios.

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In a grand sweep through the rugged landscape of the northwest, the story of Zar Gul's life unfolds.

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"My father taught me that love and honor are the two most important things in life, " confides Zar Gul.

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"Zar Gul is an average man standing up to a system that everyone knows has to change, " he says.

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Zar Gul is different because it deals with politics, corruption, repression and fundamentalism.

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The vulgar dancing of scantily clad leading ladies is in pointed contrast to a later scene between Zar Gul and Yasmin.

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Faryal Gohar slinks effortlessly between her schizoid roles as the coy object of Zar Gul's affection, rebellious daughter and respectable schoolteacher.

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The Israeli army said Palestinian gunmen killed Gilad Zar, 41, near the Palestinian-controlled city of Nablus in the northern West Bank.

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If the government is genuine in its desire for change, Peerzada believes it will see Zar Gul as a powerful ally.

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Zar Gul strides manfully out of the desert, a Lawrence of Arabia of the Subcontinent, you know you're in for an epic.

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Journalists recognized the plight of Zahid (Talat Hussain), a reporter fighting to tell Zar Gul's story in the face of press controls.

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Appalled by the suffering he witnesses in the slave camp, Zar Gul (Imraan Peerzada, the director's brother) resolves to fight injustice wherever he encounters it.

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Just as remarkable is the sheer technical quality of Zar Gul.

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The romance between Zar Gul and Yasmin respects the first two.

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"Muslim people who live near the burned buildings and shops are moving to other places, " San Zar Ni Aung, a Muslim resident of Lashio, said Wednesday.

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Imraan Peerzada's Zar Gul is every inch the dandy outlaw-about-town: a smoldering gaze, bouncing quiff, tweaked mustache and the smile of a shark on the prowl.

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Young working women identified with the film's heroine Yasmin (Faryal Gohar), a beautiful schoolteacher who rebels against her middle-class, fundamentalist father and elopes with Zar Gul.

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The young Zar Gul (a wonderfully understated performance from the director's son, Babar) learns the values of poetry and marksmanship on majestic, jagged hillsides under a cobalt sky.

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Zar was in charge of settlement security in the area.

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Emerging market currencies have mostly led the way lower in the overnight session, with the PLN and HUF losing ground against the EUR and ZAR under pressure against the U.S. dollar.

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But the greatest encounter with reality is when Zar Gul takes us into the world of institutionalized corruption, of whoring, paid-off policemen, of a man who sells his daughter into marriage like a slave.

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