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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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An Afghan girl looks at a teacher during Dari language lesson at a school in Mazar-e-Sharif on the first day of school March 23, 2002. Girls are attending school for the first time in years after they were not allowed to study under the hardline Taliban regime. (AP/Wide World Photo - Alexander Zemlianichenko)
   

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