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A NEW DAY FOR AFGHANS
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 Nurse Arefeh Ghafouri
Nurse Arefeh Ghafouri, who is working in the children's ward in Herat hospital, listens to her friend in the 400-bed Herat hospital in Herat city Afghanistan, November 17, 2001. Ghafouri said that she hoped Afghan women could participate in voting for the next government in Afghanistan and could also take up teaching in future. (AP/Wide World Photo - Hasan Sarbakhshian)
   

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