in fact, to the state called the punjab, where her mom had grown up.might help her in choosing a husband. but there's something else she didn't tell her mother. so, was that just a scheme on her part? >> a scheme on her part. to get there, i think. >> to delay the arranged marriage here and to get back to india to see him. >> to see him. to be with him. and then i guess to decide to be married. >> and that's when they actually were married in secret? >> right. >> in march 2000, jassi and mithu managed to slip away and secretly marry in a local sikh temple. the only witnesses were two friends. their honeymoon, a few days together in the punjabi countryside before she returned to canada. for the time being, at least, the clandestine marriage would have to be a secret. and with good reason. she was now on a collision course with hundreds of years of tradition. modern versus ancient. young versus old. east versus west. in a community where tradition is so important, her family was more conservative than most. by marrying mithu, she had dishonored them. >>

it happens in north punjab.here is our pakistan correspondent. >> a horrific domestic tragedy. 14 members of the same extended family killed in the dispute. most of them women and children. >> my grandsons, nieces and nephew. they have wiped out my entire family. two man had been killed earlier in the day in retaliation. shooting indiscriminately and setting them on fire. the youngest victim was just six months old. >> the victims and the attackers were from the same family. the land dispute had been going on for a long time. gunmenesses say begthe waited outside. some survived until the emergency services got there, but many lives had already been lost. >> they inflicted so much cruelty on my mother. i saw it on television. now i am see it for myself. >> feuds that go on for generations are not uncommon in this part uof punjab. but rarely do they erupt in ways that are so barbaric. >> a child dies because of malaria every minute. significant progress is being made against the disease. in some countries, the pro

14 people from the same family have been killed in a dispute over land in the central province of punjab. most of them were burned alive in their own homes. our pakistan correspondent has sent us this report. >> they gathered to mourn after a horrific domestic tragedy. 14 members, the same extended family, killed in a dispute. most of them, women and children. granddaughter, nieces and nephews, says this man, they wiped out my entire family. two men had been killed earlier in the day. in retaliation, gunmen attacked four homes, shooting indiscriminately and setting them on fire. the youngest victim was just six months old. >> the victims were all from the same family. the land dispute has been going on for a long time, but this came very suddenly. >> witnesses say the gunmen waited outside to make sure no one escapes the fires alive. four people did survive until emergency services got there, but many lives had already been lost. >> i was at school when they inflicted so much cruelty on my mother. i saw it on television. now i have seen it for myself. >> the feuds' can go on for generati

in the crucial province of punjab, the hindus and seikhs of punjab demanded partition. gandhi acquiesce. his assassination, which took place five and a half months after india and pakistan emerged as free but separate nations, came not at the hands of muslims who it demanded pakistan but at the hands of a group of hindus who saw him as a friend of the muslims. gandhi's final though unsuccessful attempt to prevent partition was actually quite lincoln like. historians have referred to lincoln's quality of softening the rivals by giving them key positions and responsibilities. this is just what gandhi wish to try with his great rival, jena. he wanted nothing less than the office of the prime minister prime minister of the united india to be offered to jena. but gandhi's closest colleagues, nehru and patel, opposed the idea is did the lib -- viceroy was given the task of ending british rule in india and who is committed to partition solution. the proposal was never put to gemma. at least one leading jena scholar, stanley warburg, thinks that jena would have accepted the aut

they saw that they had that punjab bank as an atm machine. they were not responsible for filling it. somebody else was responsible for filling it. now i have requests from the other provinces to set up their other banks said they can incurred these deficits and turn to the center and say, please go ahead and play this bill. and just in sidelight to this shift is even in the military the population that has moved closer to the cities or is in the cities is now in being particularly in the officer class. when i was doing my analysis i did a quick and dirty analysis that showed in the decade ending 2005, more officers were recruited from karachi. so a shift in the recruitment to districts that were more in central and southern punjab, remember this is also where the most militant groups arethat juxtaposition is likely to create a problem. within the power structure of pakistan, we noticed a shift also from what used to be a troika in the 1990's, to a balancing act, where you have an imbalance now, where you have the military, the civilian presid

ado about nothing" with all the pressures around marriage and honor and which is aty set in the the punjab with british asian actors who have long regarded shakespeare as their artist much morehan their white caucasian fellow bri. they've long regarded him as absolutely a soap opera writer of their lives and we're celebrating that next year, which is great. >> rose: he's been called the greatest language enhancer of all time. >> well, he invented a great deal of words. >> rose: invented words. those words he used tha nobody'd ever heard before. >> yeah. he joine words together, used them a new way, enriching the vocabulary, finding... finding new ways of talking. good poetry, goodoetics comes out over a need. how can you say this so that it's absolutely on the button. it doesn't get you in trouble and it is memorable. not just for the audience but also for the actors as well because they didn't get a whole script. they just got their queue lines and very little time to rehearse. i made a very big fuss at the r.s.c. of lengthening rehearsal time-- partly from any experience in russia-- witn

if you look at what is happening on the campus of punjab university and the appeasement going on, itvery alarming. we do not have enough time here to talk about solutions, but i think there are many areas where it if you want to put it ing up moderation, trying to isolate the extremists fringes. it is the only thing that is going to make a big difference in the long run. [applause] >> i would like to return to bruce, one of the architects of the obama administration policy toward the region. >> thank you very much. it is a pleasure to be with such a distinguished group. i want to underscore the importance of this project i have been benefiting from it from conception, being able to read and i can say that a deadly embrace would not be the book that it is without having benefited from all the drops. -- drafts. we are, once again, in a debt to his leadership. because of the time and because of a very sore throats, i will try to make two points very briefly regarding pakistan's immediate future. i fear that we are seeing the creeping establishment of pakistan's fifth military dictatorsh

that he got at the courthouse was brought there having as assassinated the appointed governor of punjab. so yes, there are some positive points but generally speaking i think we all agree things are not going very well. i want, i want to talk about a couple of things where i think there are some opportunities possibly for help. i mean for ways that things could be improved. i want to talk about, since we're being asked to, first, the u.s.-pakistan relation. we all know it is getting worse. we all know the reasons why it is getting worse. i want to focus particularly on this issue because i worked a lot about that on two years i spent researching my recent book and that is public opinion. it is very, very true that, yes, most pakistanis do not support terrorism. most pakistanis do not support al qaeda or the taliban or cutting off people's hands but at the same time the body of evidence shows at that anti-americanism, anti-westernism has never been higher in pakistan than it is now. it is across the board and we're not talking as other speakers have said, we're not just talking about poo