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27 November 2003

Music provoke Islamists on Pakistan campuses A film student at Pakistan's biggest university in Karachi, produced a music video for his final-year project. But right-wing Islamic students opposed to holding art shows on campus attacked the student's exhibition and smashed the computer he had planned to use to screen it. Full story at Yahoo News

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