He says legal notices have been sent to Ms Obaid-Chinoy and a fellow producer, Daniel Junge.

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Film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy has become the first Pakistani to win an Oscar nomination for best documentary in the short subject category.

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Film-maker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's triumph in becoming the first Pakistani to win an Oscar has been greeted with jubilation in her home country.

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But Ms Obaid-Chinoy insists the women have signed legal documents allowing the film to be shown anywhere in the world, including Pakistan.

BBC: Pakistan acid victims try to block Saving Face film

"We are looking at seven million customers in the first five years and this is a very conservative figure, " said Etisalat senior vice-president Obaid Saeed Bin Mes'har.

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The trio headed Musa Obaid Amer, himself a former Kenyan now representing Qatar, over the line to maintain the African country's almost total dominance of the event.

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The picture is confused further by the Petroleum Minister of the United Arab Emirates, Obaid bin Saif al-Nasseri who is reported to have said that there is very little spare capacity.

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Most observers, Obaid included, consider such a revolution unlikely.

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The film, directed by Daniel Junge and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, tells the story of Pakistani women who are victims of acid attacks, and of a London plastic surgeon who travels to Pakistan to rehabilitate them.

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