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Khan, once Pakistans greatest sportsman and now its most popular politician since Benazir Bhutto, exuded an Olympian solitude that evening; it had been a long day, he explained, of meetings with his partys senior leaders. The previous two months, he said, had been the most difficult in his life. His party was expanding amazingly fast and attracting electables experienced men from the governing and main opposition parties. But the young people who constituted his base wanted change; they did not want to see old political faces. I was being pulled apart in different directions, Khan said. I thought I was going mad.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/19/m...oing-something-right.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all
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