Going Up?

"When you think of Pakistan, I suppose you imagine some man with a big beard screaming anti-American slogans, and not a woman who wants a Botox filler," Mabroor Bhatty says with a smile. Dr. Bhatty, 47, a plastic surgeon in Karachi, Pakistan's business capital and largest city, says that every month he does between 15 and 30 such fillersinjections of Botox into the forehead and the sides of the face. The procedure isn't cheapit costs $230but Bhatty says demand is rapidly increasing. "Things are changing in Pakistan," notes Bhatty. "People have money to spend, and they are more conscious of how...

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