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AFGHAN CHILDREN GO BACK TO SCHOOL
Third-graders holding Afghan flags during a school reopening ceremonyNeighborhood children peeking through the front gate of Mir Ahmad Shahid Primary School
Philanthropist Karim Aga Khan and Afghanistan's Interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai applaudingAfghan girls waiting to get new schoolbooks on the first day of the school year
Afghan girl looking at a teacherTeacher Gullmaky Dilyar writes Dari language lessons for her students at a school in Mazar-e-Sharif
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 Third-graders holding Afghan flags during a school reopening ceremony

Third-graders Nooriu, 12, left, and Aziza, 12, hold Afghan flags during the reopening ceremony of the Mir Ahmad Shahid Primary School, March 20, 2002, in Kabul, Afghanistan. The school year officially starts on March 23, and these girls will be allowed to go back to school for the first time in five years, since the fall of the Taliban, who prohibited girls from attending school. (AP/Wide World Photo - Suzanne Plunkett)
   

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