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# The latest chapter in The Bollywood Soap Opera Saga has Afghani Ariana TV axing the top of their pop hits: Kumkum.

"Its popularity had attracted advertisers
and its loss would cause 'significant' cash losses."

They're said to be searching for a "moderate solution."

# That Pakistan envoy who "disappeared" in February on his way through the long-notorious Khyber Pass area has popped up in a video saying (surprise!) he is being held hostage by Taliban militants. They took him so they can use him for a hostage exchange in order to retrieve one of their own valued commandants.

# The Insidious Dr Z has issued a new tape, nominally marking the 5th Anniversary of the Iraq regime change, but using the occasion to rant that everybody else is a doomed nincompoop except him.

"Five years after the invasion, the war in Iraq
has produced nothing but failure and defeat."

Too much cave-sitting. He really
needs to get outside a lot more.

Read the details, if you must, here.

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