How can they resist it?

Sonya Fatah — Special to GlobalPost October 30, 2009 06:32 ET

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KARACHI, Pakistan — On large billboards across Karachi, three smiling faces that would seem more at home on Broadway stare out at passers-by.

The trio is better known to theater-goers half a world away as Donna and the Dynamos, from the musical, "Mamma Mia!" 

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