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The Taliban are once again making their presence known in Afghanistan, as evidenced by this morning's suicide bombing in Kabul. With Pakistan in a highly unstable state since the ouster of the chief justice of Pakistan's high court by the nation's self-appointed leader, we stand on the verge of losing Afghanistan -- if it is not lost already.

Melissa Silverstein of the Women's Media Center has posted her first entertainment blog entry for Huffington Post , where you will be able to find her musings on culture high and low. For her opener, Melissa tells us of a new documentary about Mukhtaran Mai , the Pakistani woman who defied local authorities to prosecute the men who gang-raped her on the order of a tribal council. The case now sits before Pakistan's Supreme Court, which is having a little trouble functioning these days, what with dictator and U.S. ally Pervez Musharraf having sacked the chief justice, a move that has sparked underreported violence throughout Pakistan over the course of the last month.