A man looks at a newspaper holding a photograph of Oscar award winner Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Karachi on February 28, 2012. Delighted Pakistani newspapers on February 28 fell over themselves to praise the young woman director who brought joy to the troubled, Al-Qaeda-hit nation by winning the country's first ever Oscar.
A foreign film production crew is seen on a street depicting Pakistan's Abbottabad town in Kathryn Bigelow’s forthcoming film on Osama bin Laden, at Manimajra in Chandigarh on March 1, 2012. Right-wing Hindu activists on March 2 disrupted shooting for Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's movie on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, protesting the use of Indian locations to portray Pakistan. Members of the hardline Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) stormed the set in Chandigarh -- the northern Indian city famously designed by Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier -- where Bigelow's crew had been shooting for four days
Pakistani Oscar winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, center, is escorted by unidentified family members upon her arrival in Karachi, Pakistan, Saturday, March 10, 2012. Chinoy won the prize for the documentary "Saving Face," which chronicles a London-based plastic surgeon who travels to Pakistan to treat women who have had acid thrown on them. The attacks are often carried out by angry husbands or spurned lovers
A man arranges newspapers holding photographs of Oscar award winner Pakistani director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy in Islamabad on February 28, 2012. Delighted Pakistani newspapers on February 28 fell over themselves to praise the young woman director who brought joy to the troubled, Al-Qaeda-hit nation by winning the country's first ever Oscar
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