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Dec. 4, 2004 · He has reported on the shadowy markets and bazaars of Pakistan’s northwest frontier, a lawless region where CBS News set up a sting operation to buy weapons of mass destruction. He also co-produced a three part series with Dan Rather that revealed what Osama bin Laden’s closest associates, advisors and comrade-in-arms were doing in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the Sudan the summer before September 11th. · He has also done stories on numerous conflicts, including the Afghan war, the Sudanese civil war, America’s secret war against the Cali and Medellin drug cartels, the Bosnian tragedy and the invasion of Haiti. · Mr. Khemlani has also profiled numerous scientific inventors like Dean Kamen and his Segway human transporter, musicians like Jay Z and the Grateful Dead, actresses like Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai and businessmen like Russell Simmons and Rick Wagoner, the chairman of General Motors, who unveiled his hydrogen car on the program. · Before joining CBS News in 1998, Mr. Khemlani was an associate producer for ABC News anchorman Peter Jennings for five years, reporting hour-long news specials on stories ranging from foreign policy to the Oklahoma bombing. He also produced pieces with Robert Krulwich for Nightline as well as Good Morning America. · He is a term member of the prestigious Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He has won numerous awards, including a 2004 Emmy nomination for business reporting, a 2003 Emmy nomination for Best Interview, the 2002 Edward R. Murrow award for best investigative reporting and a DuPont Award in 1995 for his participation in ABC News’ coverage of the war in Bosnia. · Mr. Khemlani is of Indian heritage, born in Singapore and raised in New York. He graduated with a Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University and an undergraduate degree from Cornell University. He is married to Heather Cabot, an anchor and correspondent for ABC News.
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Khemlani is a producer at “60 Minutes,” the most watched and respected news program in America. As a producer, Mr. Khemlani is responsible for researching, reporting and writing stories with various CBS News correspondents.
· He has been responsible for landing many exclusive interviews and stories around the world. A few years ago, he convinced Libya’s leader, Col. Qaddafi, to do a comprehensive interview with Charlie Rose. Mr. Khemlani also convinced the Russian government to show CBS News some of its most private nuclear facilities, including a secret city built inside a mountain in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. It is there where the Russians explained to CBS News that they could no longer pay the salaries of the starving scientists and soldiers who live there and guard the site’s growing stockpile of plutonium.
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