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An Afghan woman, Bibi Hur, cries over her injured daughter at
a hospital in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Aug.
18, 2011. Bibi Hur has lost three of her children and two more injured
by a road side bomb, Hur said. The roadside bomb killed at least
20 passengers traveling on a minibus Thursday in western Afghanistan,
another example of civilians being caught in the crossfire of the
fighting between Taliban insurgents and the U.S.-led coalition.
(AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi). August 20, 2011

Afghan street children collect free ration from a World Food
Program and local agency Ashiana distribution center in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Tuesday, July 26, 2011. An Afghan aid agency, Ashiana, and the World
Food Program have been involved in a joint venture to provide education
and food to families of thousands of Afghan street children, who
go there for food and education in the afternoons. World Food Program
has cut down school meals, food-for-training activities and food-for-work
programmes in about half of Afghanistan's 34 provinces due to shortage
of funds. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin). July 29, 2011

Afghans stand near the bodies of civilians who were killed in
an overnight raid in Matoon village on the outskirts of Khost in
Matoon, Afghanistan, Thursday July 14, 2011. A local government
official in eastern Afghanistan says NATO troops killed seven civilians
in an overnight raid wheninternational troops stormed into Matoon
village on the outskirts of Khost city around midnight and fired
into the windows of houses. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Ahingar). July
17, 2011

Afghan disabled men march during an anti Pakistan demonstration
in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, July 2, 2011. Several hundred
people demonstrated against rocket attacks that have killed an estimated
36 civilians along the eastern border with Pakistan in recent weeks.
Pakistan's army has said no rounds were intentionally fired but
that some may have accidentally fallen in Afghanistan in fighting
with militants carrying out cross-border attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq
Sadeq). July 3, 2011

An Afghan refugee woman looks out of her makeshift house at
a refugee camp on World Refugee Day in Kabul, Afghanistan Monday,
June 20, 2011. Millions of refugees live inside Afghanistan and
in other counties after two decades of war and occupation by the
USSR and the US. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq). June 23, 2011

An Afghan man, injured in the suicide attack gestures from an
ambulance in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, June 18, 2011. Men dressed
in Afghan army uniforms stormed the police station near the presidential
palace and opened fire. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe). June 19,
2011

Girls, who sell water, sit on a grave at a cemetery in Kabul
June 5, 2011. (REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail) June 5, 2011

Afghans remove the lifeless body of a victim of a suicide attack
in Alingar, Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Monday,
May 23, 2011. A suicide bomber attacked a gathering of tribal leaders,
killing four tribal elders and wounding 14 others who were having
lunch at a hotel, governor's spokesman Faizanullah Patan said. (AP
Photo/Rahmat Gul) May 26, 2011

Afghans try to carry a wrapped victim of bomb attack in Jalalabad,
Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, May
18, 2011. Afghan officials say at least 10 people have been killed
in a bomb attack on a police bus that was carrying people to a police
academy in eastern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) May 21, 2011

Taliban fighters pose with weapons as they sit in their compound
at an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan in this May 5,
2011 picture. (REUTERS/Stringer) May 8, 2011

A relative, left, comforts a wounded child lying beside her
wounded mother at the hospital in Ghazni, west of Kabul, Afghanistan,
Thursday April 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad) April 23,
2011

Afghani residents of Sher Darwaza carry their daily needs as
they climb up and down a few times a day in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Monday April 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) April 14, 2011

Afghans chant "Down with America, Down with Oama"
and other anti US slogans during a demonstration in Mazar-i- Sharif
north of Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, April. 1, 2011. (AP Photo/Mustafa
Najafizada) April 1, 2011

An Afghan boy carries a container of water in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Nearly ten years after the U.S. invaded,
most Afghans lack basic infrastructure and services. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin) March 19, 2011

Afghan refugee women from Helmand, wait for their turn to receive
free ration at World Food Program (WFP) distribution center in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Monday, March 7, 2011. In the last four months WFP
has provided food rations to hundreds of thousands of Afghan families
mostly widows, refugees, the disabled and poor families who have
suffered greatly under Operation Enduring Disaster. (AP Photo/Dar
Yasin) March 7, 2011

A boy, injured during a NATO air strike, lies on a hospital
bed in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province February 20, 2011. Joint
operations by Afghan forces and NATO-led foreign troops killed 64
civilians in Kunar, including many women and children, over the
past four days, the governor of Kunar said on Sunday.( REUTERS/Stringe)
February 20, 2011

Afghan refugee boys wait for their lunch outside their home
inside a refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Feb, 14, 2011.
(AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar) February 14, 2011

An Afghan immigrant with his lips sewn shut, is carried after
collapsing during an one-month hunger strike in Athens, Thursday,
Jan. 27, 2011. Six Afghans have sewn their lips shut as part of
the protest, to pressure the Greek government into granting them
refugee status. Greece is the European Union's busiest transit point
for illegal immigration, with figures showing about 90 percent of
immigrants caught entering the bloc illegally are caught in Greece.
The country is planning to build a fence along a 12.5-kilometer
(eight-mile) section of its northeastern border with Turkey. (AP
Photo/Alkis Konstantinidis) January 27, 2011

A homeless man warms his foot on a fire in Kabul January 20,
2011. )REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) January 20, 2011

Afghans wait to get water from a water pump in Kabul, Afghanistan
on Sunday, Dec 5, 2010. The U.N. is appealing for $678 million for
humanitarian aid to Afghanistan in 2011. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
December 07, 2010

An Afghan boy poses for a photographer as a military convoy
form First Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
invasion force, stops in Panjwai district, Afghanistan's Kandahar
province, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
November 30, 2010

An Afghan boy sews military uniforms at a market in Kabul November
20, 2010. Shopkeepers selling Afghan police and military uniforms
on the open market have just a couple of safeguards -- customers
with long beards or rural accents are sent to look elsewhere for
fear they could be insurgents. Afghan militants often disguise themselves
as soldiers or policemen for attacks, and buying a complete uniform
in Kabul's hectic bazaar does not cost more than 800 Afghanis ($17).
Photo taken November 20, 2010. (REUTERS/ Omar Sobhan) November 23,
2010

Afghan children look from behind a razor wire at an outpost
in Zhari district in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan November 20,
2010. (REUTERS/Peter Andrews) November 21, 2010

Afghan boys enact mock gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday,
Nov. 17, 2010 (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) November 17, 2010

U.S. flight medic, SGT. Billy Raines treats an Afghan child
who was injured during military operations in Helmand Province in
southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province November 7, 2010.
(REUTERS/Peter Andrews) November 09, 2010

Afghan children watch U.S. Marines from Second Platoon's Second
Squad of the First Battalion, Eighth Marines Bravo Company invade
their the village of Deh Zore in southern Afghanistan's Helmand
province, November 4, 2010. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) November
06, 2010

An injured woman is rushed to a hospital in Pak Pattan city
in Pakistan's Punjab province on Monday October 25, 2010. A bomb
planted on a motorcycle exploded at the gate of a famous Sufi shrine
in central Pakistan during morning prayers Monday, killing at least
five people. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Majjid Ali) Ocrtober 25, 2010


An Afghan boy affected by cutaneous leishmanisis waits to be
seen by a doctor Monday, Oct. 18, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan. An
outbreak of the tropical disease caused by sand fly bites that leaves
disfiguring skin sores has hit Afghanistan, health officials said
Friday. The disease threatens 13 million people in Afghanistan,
the World Health Organization said, and many impoverished Afghan
victims can't afford the medication to treat it. (AP Photo/Dusan
Vranic) October 19, 2010

Pakistani women mourn the death of a child outside a hospital
in Karachi following two bomb explosions at the entrance of the
shrine Sufi Saint Abdullah Shah Ghazi on October 7, 2010. (AFP/Asif
Hassan) Ocrtober 12, 2010


An Afghan civilian looks out of a medical evacuation helicopter
window as he accompanies an injured family member who was evacuated
to Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Friday
Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo / David Guttenfelder) October 9, 2010

An Afghan man, who loast both feet to a roadside bomb, is evacuated
by U.S. medics of the 101st Airborne Division's Task Force Shadow
"Dustoff" medevac team as another wounded Afghan civilian
lies nearby during an emergency airlift in southern Afghanistan's
Kandahar province October 3, 2010. (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) October
3, 2010

An injured man gets treatment in the local hospital in Khost,
southern Afghanistan, after being when a bomb planted under a pile
of wood exploded in a school yard next to a polling center in Khost.
Voting resumed after about an hour. (AP/Nishanuddin Khan) September
19, 2010

In this photo taken Saturday, Sept. 11, 2010, an Afghan boy
on a donkey reacts as Canadian soldiers with the 1st RCR Battle
Group, The Royal Canadian Regiment, patrol in Salavat, southwest
of Kandahar, Afghanistan. Minutes later the soldiers were attacked
by grenades while leaving the village. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)
September 12, 2010

Afghans burn an effigy of Dove World Outreach Center's pastor
Terry Jones during a demonstration against the United States in
Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 6, 2010. Hundreds of Afghans railed
against the U.S. and called for President Barack Obama's death at
a rally in the capital Monday to denounce the American church's
plans to burn the Islamic holy book on 9/11. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
September 7, 2010

In this picture taken on July 30, an Afghan child is seen in
a wheat field in the city of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan. Afghan
authorities are keeping a close eye on world wheat prices as they
seek to boost strategic stocks ahead of winter and ensure that demand
is met as some traditional suppliers halt exports. (AFP/File/Shah
Marai) September 3, 2010

An Afghan boy lies in a hospital after he was injured in Badghis
province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2010.
(AP Photoi) August 26, 2010

An Afghan man sits with his relative who was injured in a landmine
explosion in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 22,
2010.The United States is the world's largest producer of landmines
and refuses to sign international agreements that call for their
abolition. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) August 22, 2010

Afghans shout anti-U.S. slogans as they hold posters of injured
children at a protest on the occasion of Afghanistan's Independence
Day in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmat
Gul) August 19, 2010

Two girls push the cradle of their brother at a refugee camp
in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Aug. 14, The occupation of Afghanistan
has created millions of refugees. 2010. (AP Photo/ Ahmad Massoud)
August 17, 2010

An Afghan security man covers a body at the scene of a militant
attack in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Two suicide
attackers struck a building rented by a private security company
in Afghanistan's capital Tuesday, detonating their explosive vests
to kill two company drivers. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) August 11,
2010

In this photo taken Wednesday, a boy takes a break as he washes
clothes in a makeshift camp where displaced Pashto families from
Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, live on the outskirts of
Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) August 06, 2010

An Afghan farmer is questioned as U.S. Army soldiers of the
1-320th Alpha Battery, 2nd Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division
search his cart near COP Nolen, in the volatile Arghandab Valley,
Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday, July 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo
Abd) July 23, 2010

In this April 27, 2010 photo, an Afghan refugee lights his gas
lamp outside his tent in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan consumes
less energy per person than any other country in the world, even
after years of "reconstruction" efforts, according to
data compiled by the U.S. government. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) July
20, 2010

An Afghan National Army soldier washes rice at the Combat Outpost
Jelwar in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 18, 2010. (AP Photo/Rodrigo
Abd) July 18, 2010

Afghan children are terrified after they hear the blast of a
controlled explosion near their house in Ghazni province south of
Kabul July 12, 2010. Two suicide attackers driving a vehicle laden
with explosives trying to enter Ghazni city were identified by police,
causing one attacker to flee and the death of the other. Afghan
police and coalition forces later exploded the vehicle, which wounded
four people and damaged nearby houses. (REUTERS/ Mustafa Andalib)
July 14, 2010

An Afghan child who fixes potholes in a road between Kabul and
Bagram and depends on tips from passing motorists waits for business
in Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 6, 2010. Many poor children work to
support their families while the wealthy siphon billions of dollars
from "defense" contracts. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) July
8, 2010

Afghan children walk along a street as smoke rises from a building
in Kunduz. Four people including a German security guard were killed
as suicide bombers and gunmen stormed a USAID building Friday. (AFP)
July 2, 2010

An Afghan girl passes by U.S. soldiers with C Troop 1-71 CAV
during their patrol in the village of Gorgan in Dand district, south
of Kandahar, June 28, 2010. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov) June 29, 2010

An Afghan woman walks past by a demolished shops in Kabul, Afghanistan
on Sunday, June 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) June 27, 2010

Afghan boy works at a factory which recycles plastic in Herat,
west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, June 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza
Shirmohammadi) June 24, 2010

An Afghan farmer leads children passing by U.S. soldiers with
C Troop 1-71 CAV at a temporary checkpoint in Dand district, south
of Kandahar, June 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov) June 21, 2010

An elderly Afghan man watches as US soldiers patrol the village
of Rambasi close to the city of Kandahar. (AFP/File/Tauseef Mustafa)
June 18, 2010

Men load a coffin containing a blast victims outside a hospital
in Kandahar city, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Allauddin
Khan) June 11, 2010

Afghan shepherd boys outside of Kabul June 9, 2010. (REUTERS/Ahmad
Masood) June 10, 2010

A displaced Afghan child from Helmand province covers herself
during a brief snowfall on the outskirts of Kabul in January 2010.
The government is planning to build a "re-integration"
centre in Afghanistan to forcibly return failed Afghan asylum seekers,
including unaccompanied children. (AFP/File/Shah Marai) June 9,
2010

Delegates listen to the opening address of the peace jirga by
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in Kabul June 2, 2010. (REUTERS/Omar
Sobhani) June 2,, 2010

Afghani citizens wait outside a U.S. Marine occupation base
of 3rd Battalion, 6th Marines to issue IDs for them to live in their
own villages in Marjah district, Helmand province, May 18, 2010.
(REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih) May 25, 2010

Afghan women join a protest rally against Iran in Herat, Afghanistan,
Thursday, May 20, 2010. Protesters and rights groups allege that
Iran has executed 45 Afghans in recent weeks on drug smuggling charges.
(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) May 22, 2010

A young boy carries tea to the mechanics while helping out at
a motor repair garage in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 11, 2010.
Thousands of children work in the streets of Afghanistan every earning
on average less than $2 a day and sometimes can be the only means
of support for their families....despite a war labled "Enduring
Freedom" that began before this child was born. (AP Photo/Saurabh
Das) May 11, 2010

han police and firefighters try to extinguish burning trucks
carrying supplies to coalition forces after hundreds of people blocked
a main road and set them on fire to protest what they said were
civilian deaths in NATO operations in Logar province, west of Kabul,
Afghanistan, Sunday, April 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammed Obaid Ormur)
May 1, 2010

A man tries to extinguish a burning supply truck believed to
be carrying logistical equipment for NATO coalition troops set on
fire by protesting Afghans in Pul-e-Alam, Logar province, south
of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Mohammed
Obaid Ormur) April 23, 2010

Afghan children play on a broken swing in Kabul April 18, 2010.
(REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) April 18, 2010

Afghans wounded in a suicide attack lie at a hospital in Jalalabad,
east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. A suicide
attacker appeared to have targeted a NATO convoy and killed one
civilian and wounded 15 others, officials said. One of the vehicles
and several nearby shops were damaged. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) April
10, 2010

In this photo taken Friday, April 2, 2010, Afghan children ride
a donkey in Karokh district of Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) April 4, 2010


U.S. Marines detain an Afghan citizen in one of the compounds
U.S. Marines hold, in Marjah district, Helmand province, March 29,
2010. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih) March 29, 2010

Afghan men look at a passing U.S. patrol in Marjah, Afghanistan
In this photo taken on Wednesday, March 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Dusan
Vranic) March 25, 2010


An Afghan refugee family who fled war in neighboring Afghanistan
go through an iris scan for identification before going back their
homeland, at UNHCR repatriation center in Peshawar, Pakstan on Monday,
March 22, 2010. The U.S. and UN is slowly building an biometric
database of all Iraqis and Afghans. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad) March
23, 2010


Afghan children look on U.S occupation forces with 293D Military
Police Company, 97th Military Police Battalion arrive at a local
police station on the outskirts of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan
March 18, 2010. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov) March 19, 2010


Wounded civilians lie in beds in a hospital after they got wounded
in an explosion in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday,
March 14, 2010 The governor of Kandahar province demanded more security
around Afghanistan's largest southern city Sunday after 12 explosions
killed dozens of people in the Taliban heartland that will be the
target of the war's next major offensive. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
March 14, 2010


Afghan kids play at a junk yard packed with buses destroyed
during civil war in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
(AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud) March 9, 2010


An Afghan baker makes naan (bread) at a market in the town of
Now Zad in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, March 7, 2010.
(REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov) March 7, 2010


File photo shows Afghan women members of parliament in Kabul
in January. Afghan women may hold a quarter of the seats in their
country's parliament but many are mere mouthpieces for warlords,
who continue to set the legislative agenda, an Afghan women's rights
activist said. (AFP/File/Massoud Hossaini) March 5, 2010


Afghan citizens being guarded by U.S. Army Specialist Jerrod
Carr from Lakeland, Florida and with Delta Company 4th Brigade combat
team, 2-508, 82nd parachute infantry regiment, after being detained
in their village in the Arghandab valley in Kandahar province February
26, 2010. (REUTERS/Baz Ratner) March 1, 2010


Afghan security officers carry a body on a stretcher from the
site of a gun battle in Shar-e Naw area of Kabul. Suicide bombers
targeted private guesthouses in the centre of the Afghan capital
on Friday, killing 17 people including foreigners in the deadliest
attack on Kabul in a year. (AFP/Massoud Hossaini) February 27, 2010


An unidentified injured Afghan National Army soldier being medivaced
from Marjah, Afghanistan, Feb. 24, 2010. Pegasus crews provide the
fast medical evacuation of those wounded in Marjah, as U.S. and
Afghan troops take part in an assault on Taliban strongholds. (AP
Photo/Brennan Linsley) February 24, 2010


U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Nathaniel Dabney, of Prescott, Ariz.,
comforts an Afghan civilian boy with a gun shot wound just after
take off on a U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus helicopter during a medevac
mission, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday Feb.
21, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) February 21, 2010


A resident of Marjah is search by Afghan security forces while
NATO troops watch) February 20, 2010


An Afghan soldier attempts to break open a door as U.S. Marines
from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines, look on during
an operation to search for weapons in the town of Marjah, in Nad
Ali district of Helmand province February 17, 2010. (REUTERS/Goran
Tomasevic) February 17, 2010


Afghan boy Sayd Rahman, 7, who was shot in crossfire near the
Taliban stronghold of Marjah, lies on a stretcher at a U.S. Army
outpost in the Badula Qulp area, west of Lashkar Gah in Helmand
province, southern Afghanistan, after being taken by his father
to receive medical treatment, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Pier
Paolo Cito) February 15, 2010


An Afghan family is forced to flee their home as U.S. Marines
from 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment enter Marjah in Afghanistan's
Helmand province Saturday, Feb. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
February 14, 2010


Afghan family members, who had fled from Marjha and neigoborhood,
sitting on the back of a truck, arrive in Lashkar Gah, in Helmand
province, southern Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. On Friday,
the road between Marjah and Lashkar Gah was clogged with cars and
trucks filled with people fleeing ahead of the expected U.S. assault
on their town fearing a repeat of the 2004 massacre of Fallujah.
(AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq) February 12, 2010


Medics move a man wounded during a gun battle in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Taliban militants struck the heart of the
Afghan government in Kabul on Monday, prompting fierce gunbattles
after a suicide bomber blew himself up near the presidential palace.
(AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy) January 19, 2010


Afghan children sit on the street at Delaram district in Nimroz
province, southern Afghanistan January 15, 2010. (REUTERS/Marko
Djurica) January 17, 2010


Afghan parliament members vote during a debate in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Saturday, Jan. 2, 2010. Afghan parliament began voting on President
Hamid Karzai's list of nominees for his new cabinet. (AP Photo/Farzana
Wahidy) January 2, 2010


Afghan peace activists attend an anti-war protest, calling for
war criminals from the three decades of war in Afghanistan to be
put on trial, in Kabul December 10, 2009. (REUTERS/ Omar Sobhani)
December 10, 2009

An Afghan girl touches her mother's artificial leg at the ICRC
Ali Abad Orthopaedic centre in Kabul in this November 12, 2009 photo.
Throughout Afghanistan's tumultuous history, warring factions have
changed and frontlines have shifted, leaving the country littered
with landmines. The US refuses to sign an international ban on such
landmines. (REUTERS/Jerry Lampen) November 28, 2009


An Afghan boy rides his horse in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday,
Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) November 16, 2009


An Afghan farmer (L) displays apples while Indian ambassador
to Afghanistan Jayant Prasad (R, background) looks on at the Kabul
International airport. Afghanistan on Thursday exported 12 tonnes
of apples to India, officials said, touting the shipment as a key
step in exploring much-needed international markets for its agricultural
products. (AFP/Shah Marai) November 12, 2009


Afghan men ride on a three-wheeler laden with firewood in Kandahar,
on November 5. (AFP/File/Banaras Khan) November 08, 2009


An Afghan motorcyclist adjusts a newly purchased surgical mask
at a market place in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Authorities
on Sunday declared a nationwide public health emergency in the aftermath
of rapidly increasing swine flu activity in the country. (AP Photo/Altaf
Qadri) November 02, 2009


An Afghan boy peers through a doorway in Afghanistan's Farah
province, Sunday, Oct. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) October
25, 2009


A burqa-clad Afghan woman walks through a market in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Friday, Oct. 9, 2009. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) October 9, 2009


An Afghan man works at Stewart's Turquoise Mountain Foundation
in the old city of Kabul October 4, 2009. At a time when Western
donors are spending millions of dollars on massive aid projects,
the Institute for Afghan Arts and Architecture set up by a British
charity is working to save something more intangible than roads,
dams or hospitals. (AFGHANISTAN/INSTITUTE REUTERS/Omar Sobhani)
October 7, 2009


Afghan women react as they watch people taking a ride in a merry-go-round,
in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish
Swarup) September 26, 2009


Afghans fly kite on the second holiday of the Eid al-Fitr, in
Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
September 21, 2009


Afghans cycle past an election poster in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2009. The U.N.-backed commission charged with
investigating Afghanistan's presidential election said Tuesday that
it has found 'clear and convincing evidence of fraud' in the results
and ordered a re-count of ballots from questionable polling stations.
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup) September 8, 2009


Afghan children look out of a window in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) September 3, 2009


An Afghan girl returns home from market, in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) September 1, 2009


Election workers write down the results of the presidential
election at the National Tally Center of the Independence Election
Commission in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. Early reports
strongly suggest that voter turnout fell more sharply for women
than for men in Thursday's polls. Election observers blame Taliban
attacks, a dearth of female election workers and hundreds of closed
women's voting sites. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) August 24, 2009


Workers count ballots at a mosque-turned polling station in
Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009. Campaign teams for President
Hamid Karzai and top challenger Abdullah Abdullah each positioned
themselves Friday as the winner of Afghanistan's presidential election,
one day after millions of Afghans braved dozens of militant attacks
to cast ballots. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh) August 22, 2009


An Afghan Independent Election Commission staff, right, hand
out information for the upcoming election to women voters at an
election awareness program on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan,
Friday, Aug 14, 2009. Afghans will head to the polls on Aug. 20
to elect the new president for the second time in the country's
history. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) August 14, 2009


Afghan children weave the carpet at a factory in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) August 7, 2009


Taliban fighters train with their weapons in an undisclosed
location in Afghanistan July 14, 2009. (REUTERS/Stringer) July 28,
2009


Afghan refugees chat in front of their refugee camp on the outskirts
of Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, July 25, 2009. (AP Photo/Alexandre
Meneghini) July 26, 2009


Afghan men sit next to posters of presidential and provincial
council candidates in a street in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday,
July 16, 2009. Hamid Karzai is the odds-on favorite to win the Aug.
20 presidential ballot. Critics decry his government corrupt and
ineffectual, the economy is in the tank and the country is racked
by an insurgency led by the very people he helped oust from power
eight years ago. The best hope for his opponents is that the 40
others in the race can win enough votes to deny him a first round
majority and force a runoff, in which they could unite around a
single candidate. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti) July 17, 2009


An Afghan boy licks his lips while consuming a can of soft drink
in Kashem district of Afghanistan's Badakhshan province July 12,
2009. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborne) July 12, 2009


Afghan farmers in Helmand province on July 5. A scorching desert
littered with bombs, little contact, an invisible enemy: the Marines
who descended on Taliban bastions in southern Afghanistan will have
to face guerrilla tactics proven against the Soviets, an analyst
says. (AFP/Manpreet Romana) July 6, 2009


In this photo taken on Thursday, June 4, 2009, a wounded Afghan
translator working for the U.S. military lays on a stretcher a he
arrives for treatment on a U.S. military helicopter to the Bagram
Air Base, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
June 14, 2009


An Afghan prisoner paints at the main jail in the center of
Kandahar province south of Kabul, Afghanistan Wednesday, June 3,
2009. Around 1,000 prisoners, including 400 Taliban militants had
escaped by a dramatic Taliban assault on the southern Afghan city's
main prison of Kandahar province last year. (AP Photo/Allauddin
Khan) June 6, 2009


Afghan villagers stand near the graves of air-strike victims
in Garni village on May 8, 2009. The latest "outrage"
of massive civilian casualties in US air strikes needs to be the
last if the United States wants to have credibility in Afghanistan,
campaign group Human Rights Watch said Friday. (AFP/File) May 16,
2009


Afghan Shiite women carry banners, one on left reads 'Yes law,
but no petrifaction,' during a march against a new conservative
marriage law in Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, April 15, 2009.
A group of some 1,000 Afghans swarmed the demonstration by 300 women
Wednesday. Some counter protesters pelted the women with small stones
as police struggled to keep the two groups apart. (AP Photo/Musadeq
Sadeq) April 16, 2009


Afghan children are afraid to play while a U.S soldier of 101st
Airborne Division invades their village during a patrol in Parwan
province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 6, 2009. U.S.
President Barack Obama has increased the U.S. focus on Afghanistan
and has pledged to send 21,000 additional troops to bolster the
38,000 already in the country. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) April 07,
2009


Mansoor Ulhaq Keen, an Indian doctor, examines an Afghan refugee
girl during a free medical camp organized by Indian doctors at a
refugee camp in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 27, 2009. (AP
Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) April 052009


An Afghan boy works in a poppy field in Musa Qala, Helmand province,
March 28, 2009 (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) March 29, 2009


Afghan policemen carry the body of a suspected insurgent after
he was killed in a battle outside Ghazni March 26, 2009. (REUTERS/Shir
Ahmad ) March 24, 2009


An Afghan security officer stands guard as flames rise during
a drug burning event on the outskirts of the city in Herat province,
west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March 18, 2009. Over 2,000
kilograms of narcotics, composed of heroin, opium and hashish, were
burnt along with some bottles of alcoholic drinks. (AP Photo/Fraidoon
Pooyaa) March 18, 2009


Afghan women attend a ceremony to mark International Women's
Day (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) March 08, 2009


An Afghan policeman in civilian clothes stands inside a police
station in Nimroz province March 7, 2009. Police shot dead a would-be
suicide bomber as he entered a police compound in Nimroz city, 420
miles southwest of Kabul, police said. The bomber's explosives detonated
in the shooting, killing two policemen. (REUTERS/Stringer) March
07, 2009


An Afghan man walks in an old bazaar in Kabul March 4, 2009.
Presidential polls in Afghanistan cannot be held next month as demanded
by President Hamid Karzai, the elections commission said on Wednesday,
with Aug. 20 to remain the polling day as originally scheduled.
(REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) March 04, 2009


Afghans walk under an election billboard outside March 01, 2009


A U.S. soldier counts Afghani currency to be paid for repairing
of the homes which were destroyed during the recent US raids in
Inzeri village of Tagab Valley in Kapisa province north of Kabul,
Afghanistan, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Jason Straziuso)
February 26, 2009


Afghan elders attend a meeting to discuss a new hospital, sponsored
by the U.S. forces in the area, near Peshad village, Kunar Province,
eastern Afghanistan February 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Oleg Popov) February
22, 2009


A U.S. soldier with the 2nd Platoon from Alpha Company, 32nd
Infantry Regiment, takes a finger print of an Afghan man during
a house-to-house search operation in the village of Semkar, Kunar
Province, eastern Afghanistan February 12, 2009. No Afghan is free
of warrantless searches in their own country by occupation forces.
(REUTERS/Oleg Popov) February 13, 2009

An Afghan balloon seller drinks water from a hand pump in the
outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Rafiq
Maqbool) Februay 08, 2009.

An Afghan boy sorts breads for sell inside a kiosk on a roadside
in Kabul Januaray 27, 2009. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) January 27, 2009.

Villagers watch as a group of US and Afghan soldiers arrive
for a meeting with the local shura, or elders, in Kamu, near Combat
Outpost Lowell in eastern Afghanistan, January 8, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob
Strong) January 12, 2009.

An Afghan man walks during a snowy day in Kabul, Afghanistan
on Saturday Jan. 3, 2009. Kabul gets the first snow in this winter,
Afghan officials said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) January 4, 2009.

An Afghan National Army soldier keeps watch at the front gate
to Forward Operating Base Bostick in eastern Afghanistan January
1, 2009. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) January 1, 2009.

A wounded Afghan boy receives treatment at a hospital after
a suicide attack in Khost province December 28, 2008. (REUTER/Kamal
Sadat ) December 28, 2008.

An Afghan girl watches as a US Army convoy drives through the
village of Bari Kowt in eastern Afghanistan's Nuristan province
December 24, 2008. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) December 27, 2008.

An Afghan man reads Muslim holy book Koran near the grave of
his relative at a local grave yard in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday,
Dec. 4, 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) December 6, 2008.

An Afghan woman walks past a banner about aid on World AIDS
Day in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 1, 2008. The banner read,
'People who are effected by HIV aid can continue their lives in
society.' (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) December 1, 2008.

A vehicle carries the body of an Afghan boy shot dead by foreign
troops in Kabul November 28, 2008. Dozens of angry Afghans threw
stones at the police after a convoy of foreign troops killed one
civilian and wounded four more in the capital on Friday, Kabul police
chief and witnesses said. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) November 28, 2008.

Displaced Afghan children from Helmand province, south of Afghanistan,
sit next to their tent on the outskirts of Kabul November 12, 2008.
(REUTERS/Omar Sobhani ) November 12, 2008.

A cowded street is pictured in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of
Balkh province, north of Kabul. (AFP/DDP/File/Michael Kappeler)
November 02, 2008.

An unidentified relative puts a sheet over Sayed Ghulam, an
Afghan farmer, after an interview with The Associated Press at a
hospital in the city of Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday,
Oct. 26, 2008. Ghulam said armed assailants attacked him and gouged
out his eyes in front of his family in an attack in southern Afghanistan,
officials said Sunday. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) October 26, 2008.

Afghan men receive their meals during a free food distribution
in the city of Herat, Afghanistan, Oct. 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Fraidoon
Pooyaa) October 13, 2008.
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Afghan girls from poor neighborhood poses for photograph in
Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 8, 2011. More than nine years after
the fall of the Taliban, most Afghan children still don't attend
school and face the prospect of a life of poverty no different from
their parents. Prospects for girls are bleaker. Figures show that
only about 13 percent of females over 15 years old can read or write
-- compared to 43 percent for males.(AP Photo/ Ahmad Nazar). August
14, 2011

Noora, an internally displaced Afghan woman, holds her son Preem
as she walks inside a refugee camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan,
Monday, July 25, 2011. According to UNHCR there are some 240,000
internally displaced Afghans. Children face a wide range of protection
concerns, including child labor, smuggling and human trafficking,
and early or forced marriage, according to an UNHCR report. (AP
Photo/Dar Yasin). August 7, 2011

A local Afghan farmer works in his field in the village of Salam
Bazar Friday, July 22, 2011 in Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP
Photo/David Goldman). July 23, 2011

Pakistani protesters burn a representation of an American flag
during a rally to condemn U. S. drone attacks targeting al-Qaida
and Taliban militants' hideout in Pakistani tribal belt of Waziristan
along the Afghanistan border, on Thursday, July 7, 2011 in Mutan,
Pakistan. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer). July 10, 2011

An injured Afghan man, a victim of a blast lies in a hospital
bed in Kunduz city in the northern province of Kunduz, Afghanistan,
Saturday, June 25, 2011. A bicycle rigged with explosives ripped
through a bazaar in the Khanabad district of Kunduz province on
Friday, killing at least 10 people, including a police officer.
At least 24 people were wounded in the attack. (AP Photo/Balal).
June 26, 2011

An Afghan man carries an injured child, a victim of a suicide
explosion in the central province of Ghazni, Afghanistan Saturday,
June 11, 2011. A suicide bomber, pushing an ice cream cart, exploded
killing one child and injuring three more in the central province
of Ghazni, according to provincial police chief Mohammad Hussain.
A string of attacks across Afghanistan killed at least 21 people
Saturday, officials said, while the U.N. released a report showing
May to be the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since 2007. (AP
Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad) June 12, 2011

Villagers stand over the body of groom during the funeral ceremony,
who was killed by gunmen on his wedding party in Dur Baba district
of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, June
9, 2011. Gunmen opened fire on a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan,
killing nine people, including the groom. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)
June 9, 2011

Cuff check : An Afghan is handcuffed and detained in his own
home by a A US occupation Marine from 3rd Battalion 9th Marines
Kodiak Company after an early morning operation, at Block 9 military
camp of Marjah district in Helmand Province. (AFP/Massoud Hossaini)
May 29, 2011

Injured Afghan children are given food to eat at a hospital
at Khost, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 14, 2011. A car bomb explosion
at Sabari district in eastern Khost province on Saturday, wounding
seven civilians including five children. (AP Photo/ Nishan Ahingar)
May 15, 2011

Afghan refugee girls stand in line to get soup distributed by
Afghanistan's Children and New Approach (ASCHIANA) center in Kabul,
Afghanistan on Tuesday, April 26, 2011. Millions of Iraqis have
become refugees due to the 2001 U.S. invasion.
(AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) April 27, 2011

An Afghan is detained for questioning at gunpoint by .S. Army
soldiers near the village of Sai'dano Kalache in the Arghandab Valley
north of Kandahar April 15, 2011. (REUTERS/Bob Strong) April 17,
2011

Afghan protestors step on a hand-made U.S. flag during a demonstration
in Jalalabad, Afghanistan on Sunday, April 3, 2011. Afghan protests
against the burning of a Quran in Florida entered a third day with
a demonstration in the major eastern city Sunday, while the Taliban
called on people to rise up, blaming government forces for any violence.
(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) April 6, 2011

In this Saturday, March 26, 2011 photo, Afghan children play
on a destroyed Soviet - made armored tank in Panjshir north of Kabul,
Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar) March 27, 2011

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (R) holds a girl with an amputated
leg following an alleged NATO strike in Kunar province. Karzai on
Saturday told international troops to "stop their operations
in our land", his strongest remarks yet over mistaken killings
of civilians. (AFP) March 12, 2011

Afghan children carry water in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan,
Thursday, Feb, 24, 2011. (AP Photo/Dar) February 27, 2011

Afghan girls carry bread on their heads on a street in Kabul
February 3, 2011. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani ) February 6, 2011

An injured woman is carried out of a supermarket Friday, Jan.
28, 2011 in central Kabul, Afghanistan. An explosion has rocked
a grocery store frequented by foreigners in Kabul. Police officers
at the scene say they don't know what caused Friday's blast. (AP
Photo/Rahmat Gul) January 30, 2011

An Afghan man wounded by an improvised explosive device (IED)
is transported to hospital in a helicopter of the United States
Army' Task Force Shadow 'Dust Off', Charlie Company 1-214 Aviation
Regiment near Lashkar Gah, in central Helmand Province, Afghanistan,
Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) January 23, 2011

An Afghan family walks through downtown Herat, west of Kabul,
Afghanistan, Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
January 23, 2011

Enzer Gul, the 11-year-old son of Khan Mohammad, is treated
after his face was burnt in Kabul January 9, 2011. Mohammad's once-long
and henna-stained beard has burned up to his chin and his face is
swollen and raw after a gas lamp exploded because it was too close
to the family's wood-burning stove. The explosion also hurt Gul.
As temperatures drop well below freezing during the country's harsh
winter, bombs and bullets from a near-decade long war are not the
only threat -- just trying to light a home and stay warm can be
deadly. Picture taken January 9, 2011. (REUTERS/Hamid Sayedi) January
9, 2011

Body of a roadside bomb blast victim lies in a vehicle as Afghan
men mourn next to it at a hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province
southern Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 30, 2010. A roadside bomb blew
up next to a minibus at a crowded intersection on a major highway
in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing civilians. (AP Photo/Abdul
Khaliq) January 1, 2011

An Afghan refugee boy puts a clip on washed clothes in front
of Dar al Aman palace, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 24, 2010
(AP Photo/Ahmad Massoud) December 26, 2010

The body of a suspected Taliban fighter lies on a road after
a gunbattle on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec.
19, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) December 19, 2010

Mohammad Gul, an eight-year-old Afghan boy, works in a welding
shop in Khost, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Dec. 11,
2010. Thousands of Afghan children works to help in supporting their
families in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Nishanuddin Khan) December 12,
2010

An Afghan protester speaks on a laud speaker asking for justice
of civilians who have been killed in the past three decades of war
in Afghanistan, during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on
Friday, Dec. 10, 2010. Several hundred demonstrators, some holding
photographs of the victims of three decades of war, shouted for
justice and peace Friday in the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Musadeq
Sadeq) December 10, 2010

An Afghan TV shop's seller, watches as U.S. President Barack
Obama speaks to troops at a rally during an unannounced visit at
Bagram Air Field Occupation Base, waiting for customers in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2010. December 04, 2010

Afghan children fill water from a public water pump in Kabul
November 22, 2010. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) November 28, 2010

Internally displaced Afghan youths look towards the site of
an explosion on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov.
12, 2010. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) November 12, 2010

Afghan candidates for the parliamentary elections attend a protest
in Kabul November 2, 2010. Disgruntled lawmakers, candidates and
their supporters called for Afghanistan's parliamentary elections
to be scrapped on Tuesday, with no results declared more than six
weeks after the poll amid major fraud concerns. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
November 03, 2010

An Afghan policeman keeps watch at the site of a bomb blast
in Kunduz November 1, 2010. At least three guards to an Afghan district
chief were wounded after a remote controlled roadside bomb explosion
in northern Kunduz province. (REUTERS/ Wahdat) November 01, 2010

Afghan workers unload sacks of wheat which will be distributed
to Afghan widows for their monthly rations from the World Food Program
(WFP) in Kabul October 26, 2010. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) October
29, 2010

An Afghan man washes his feet outside his shop in the town of
Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, October 19,
2010 (REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly) October 21, 2010

An Afghan man prays standing in road side at dusk as a boy rides
past in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/
Gemunu Amarasinghe) October 15, 2010

Pakistani protesters burn a U.S. flag during a rally demanding
close the supply route for U.S. and NATO forces, Sunday, Oct. 10,
2010 in Multan, Pakistan. Pakistan reopened a key border crossing
to NATO supply convoys heading into Afghanistan on Sunday, ending
an 11-day blockade imposed after a U.S. helicopter strike killed
two Pakistani soldiers. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer) Ocrtober 13, 2010


Afghans wounded in a blast lie in a hospital in Kandahar city,
south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Two explosions
rocked Kandahar on Tuesday where U.S. and Afghan forces are ramping
up operations in areas long held by the Taliban. At least eight
people were killed and another 22 were wounded in the blasts. (AP
Photo/Allauddin Khan) October 7, 2010

An Afghan girl drinks water in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday,
Sept. 29, 2010. Nearly 10 years after the U.S. invasion, Kabul has
the best infrastructure in all Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ahmad
Massoud) October 1, 2010

An Afghan customer leaves a local tea house in Kabul, Afghanistan
on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) September 26,
2010

An Afghan boy playfully aims a toy pistol on the head of a man
as they gather to drink tea in the old part of Kabul city, Afghanistan,
Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. (AP Photo/ Gemunu Amarasinghe) September
21, 2010

An Afghan woman, second left, distributes election manifestoes
to a group of women, in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday,
Aug. 27, 2010. Afghans will go to the polls for the Parliamentary
elections in September. (AP Photo/ Reza Shirmohammadi) August 30,
2010

Afghan police at the site where a suicide car bomber struck
a police vehicle outside Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday,
Aug. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) August 08, 2010

An Afghan boy carries canisters to be filled with water down
the hill where he lives, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2010 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Most of Kabul's neighborhoods on hills have no running water. (AP
Photo/Dusan Vranic) August 04, 2010

An Afghan demonstrator holds poster of an Afghan civilian injured
by U.S. forces in Afghanistan, during a demonstration in Kabul,
Afghanistan on Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. More than 400 demonstrators
marched toward the presidential palace in Kabul to protest the alleged
killing of 52 civilians by a NATO rocket strike in the south. NATO
has disputed the report of civilian deaths. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
August 02, 2010

A medic helps a boy at a hospital in Kandahar, south of Kabul,
Afghanistan. Saturday July 24, 2010. The boy was one of seven children
brought to the city's hospital after getting caught in crossfire
Friday between NATO and Taliban forces in Sangin, a flash-point
town in neighboring Helmand province. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)
July 26, 2010

Afghan women, right, wait to get voting cards at a voter registration
center in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, July 8, 2010. Afghans
will go to the polls for parliamentary elections in September. (AP
Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) July 10, 2010

Afghan children watch from a doorway as a United States soldier
from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry
Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, and an Afghan soldier raid homes
near the village of Charbagh in the volatile Arghandab Valley, outside
Kandahar City, Monday, July 5, 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer) July
6, 2010

Neighborhood in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 30, 2010.
(AP Photo/Hossein Fatemi) July 1, 2010

Afghan farmers harvest wheat outside Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday,
June 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) June 25, 2010

Afghan farmers in a car drive past a temporary checkpoint in
Dand district, south of Kandahar June 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov)
June 22, 2010

Medics treat a wounded Afghan boy in a hospital in Herat after
he was injured in a clash between the police and Taliban in Afghanistan's
Badghis province, Sunday, June 20, 2010. (AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi)
June 20, 2010

A view showing part of Kabul Afghanistan, during sunset at the
close of the day, Monday, June 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
June 15, 2010

Afghan schoolgirls rest at a hospital in Ghazni, eastern Afghanistan,
Saturday, June 12, 2010. More than three dozen school girls were
hospitalized after becoming ill from suspected poisoning at their
high school in Ghazni. There have been similar cases of illnesses
at schools around Afghanistan. Some suspect militants are spraying
schools with poison gas because they oppose education for girls.
(AP Photo/Rahmatullah Naikzad) June 13, 2010

A NATO vehicle burns after their military convoy was hit by
a suicide attack in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 6, 2010.
(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) June 6, 2010

Afghans watch a burning fuel tanker after an explosion caused
by a bomb in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan May 28, 2010. The truck
was on its way to supply fuel to a NATO base. (REUTER/Parwiz) May
29, 2010

A Kuchi tribal girl peeps from behind her brother on the outskirts
of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 23, 2010. As Afghanistan's population
grows, competing claims over summer pastures, both for rainfed cultivation
and for grazing of the settled communities' livestock, have created
conflict over land across central and northern Afghanistan and made
life more difficult for this nomadic tribe. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
May 23, 2010

An Afghan military helicopter looks for the Afghan plane that
crashed with 44 on board over Salang Pass, Afghanistan, Tuesday,
May 18, 2010. The plane, operated by Pamir Airways, a private Afghan
airline, was traveling from Kunduz in northern Afghanistan to Kabul
when it crashed Monday. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das) May 18, 2010

Local residents and relatives gather around the bodies of some
of the 9 people killed in an overnight raid by NATO forces, at Surkh
Rod, Afghanistan, Friday, May 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) May
15, 2010

An Afghan woman carries food aid in Kabul May 5, 2010. The Afghan
Ministry of Defense distributed food aid such as wheat, cooking
oil, sugar and beans to 220 poor families. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
May 8, 2010

An Afghan girl carries the ration of her mother, a victim of
land mines and a war widow after receiving them from CARE's food
distribution program for windows in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday,
April 15, 2010. According to CARE there are at least 10, 000 war
widows in Kabul, and CARE is providing them 4 liters of oil, 800
grams of salt and 9 kilograms of red beans. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
April 15, 2010

In this photo taken Friday, April 2, 2010, an Afghan girl walks
home in Karokh district of Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan.
(AP Photo/Reza Shirmohammadi) April 3, 2010

Afghan refugee sit outside their temporary shelter at a refugee
camp in the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 28, 2010
as commercial buildings built by corrupt local officials loom in
the background. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) March 31, 2010

A village elder looks at James Byrnes, U.S. Army Sergeant with
the 508th Special Troops Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, as he
drinks tea during a meeting in Morghan Kaicha village outside the
town of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan March 26, 2010. (REUTERS/Shamil
Zhumatov) March 28, 2010


Afghan police men try to control crowd during the celebration
of Nowruz, the start of spring and the traditional New Year,, from
the hilltop at the Kart-e-Sakhi shrine in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday,
March 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) March 21, 2010


Ali , an Afghan man who lost his arm in the ongoing occupation
waits for the treatment at International Committee for the Red Cross
(ICRC) Orthopedic Center in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, March
17, 2010. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) March 18, 2010


An Afghan man washes his clothes in a flooded area in Kabul,
Afghanistan on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
(AP Photo / Musadeq Sadeq) March 16, 2010


A wedding hall is seen damaged in an explosion in Kandahar,
south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, March 14, 2010, The governor
of Kandahar province demanded more security around Afghanistan's
largest southern city Sunday after 12 explosions killed dozens of
people. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) March 15, 2010


Afghan refugee from Marjah, Nangialai holds his baby as he stands
with his other children in the courtyard of a relative's home in
a poor neighbourhood of Lashkar Gah on March 9. He and many others
living in similar squalor in Lashkar Gah, Helmand's provincial capital,
appear to have fallen between bureaucratic cracks after leaving
everything behind in Marjah to escape the U.S. assault on their
town. (AFP/Behrouz Mehri) March 12, 2010


In this image made on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, Haji Katel,
67, talks during a prisoner release ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Katel and three other prisoners were released from a U.S.-run military
prison on Wednesday. He is one of thousands of Afghan citizens who
has been illegally detained by foreign forces in his own country.
(AP Photo/Dusan Vranic) March 11, 2010


Afghan boy who was hit by a truck receives a helicopter medical
evacuation by the U.S. Army's Task Force Pegasus. Flight medic Sgt.
Bryan Eickelberg stabilizes the head and neck of an Afghan boy with
a life-threatening head injury, after landing at a British military
hospital in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Tuesday
March 2, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) March 3, 2010


An Afghan boy wounded while playing with some sort of explosive
he found sits aboard an airborne U.S. Army Task Force Pegasus medevac
helicopter, en route to a field hospital, in Helmand province, southern
Afghanistan, Thursday Feb. 25, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
February 26, 2010


Afghan men ride bicycles on a road past an old damaged palace
named Darulaman in Kabul February 22, 2010. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood
) February 22, 2010


A U.S. Marine from Bravo Company of the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines
provides medical help to a woman wounded last week during fighting
in Marjah, Helmand province February 21, 2010. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)
February 21, 2010


Afghan civilians being questioned by U.S. Marines in the market
of Karu Chareh in Marjah in Helmand province, south Afghanistan
February 18, 2010. The men, Abdelaziz (L) and his father Abdelkareem
(R) lost four of their relatives in a major Marine-led NATO operation
on Wednesday. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic) February 19, 2010


Injured Afghanreceives medical treatment aboard a Black hawk
helicopter on a medevac mission, U.S. Army flight medic Sgt. Michael
G. Patangan, left, from Houston, Texas, with Charlie Company, Task
Force Talon, Saturday Feb. 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)
February 13, 2010


An Afghan woman waters a relative's grave in a cemetery in Kabul,
Afghanistan, on Friday, Jan. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Farzana Wahidy)
January 10, 2010


Afghan protesters shout slogans during a protest in Kabul December
30, 2009. Hundreds of Afghans joined street rallies on Wednesday
to protest against the killing of 10 civilians, most of them teenage
students, in a military raid by foreign forces over the weekend.
(REUTERS/Ahmad Masood ) December 31, 2009


A boy waits for the distribution of food by German humanitarian
organization "KinderBerg International" to Afghan local
residents in downtown Kunduz December 19, 2009. (REUTERS/Fabrizio
Bensch) December 26, 2009


An Afghan child looks through a window in Herat December 19,
2009. (REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl ) December 19, 2009


A child looks out near the town of Baraki Barak, Logar province,
Afghanistan, Monday, Nov. 23, 2009.
(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) November 23, 2009


An Afghan boy rides his horse in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday,
Nov. 16, 2009. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) November 16, 2009


An Afghan vendor counts his money in a local traditional bazaar
in Herat October 28, 2009.
REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl) October 28, 2009


An Afghan boy looks on as U.S. Marines of the 8th Regiment,
Second Battalion, patrol with Afghan National Army soldiers around
Mian Poshtay area, in Helmand province, October 21, 2009. (REUTERS/Asmaa
Waguih) October 21, 2009


Afghan girls watch U.S. Marines from the 8th Marine Regiment
carrying out a patrol in Khorakoh village near Garmsir district
in Helmand province October 6, 2009. (REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih) October
17, 2009


Relatives of slain Afghan civilians wail next to their dead
bodies in Ghazni, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. Four Afghan
civilians, two men and two women from one family, were killed during
an operation of coalition forces near Ghazni city, Gen. Khail Buz
Sherzai. (AP Photo/Rehmatullah Naikzad) October 16, 2009


An Afghan boy walks past two men outside a hospital in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) October
3, 2009


An Afghan boy walks past two men outside a hospital in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) October
3, 2009


Afghan women make bread at the Silos bread factory, in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009. Silos, an old Russian bread
factory which used to make 120,000 loaves of bread on a daily basis
for the interior and defense ministries as well as supply bakery
outlets throughout Kabul now makes only 10,000 loaves a day, mainly
for Afghanistan's police force and employs some 60 Afghans. (AP
Photo/Manish Swarup) September 16, 2009


Afghan men sit and chat in a tea house in Istalif, north of
Kabul September 13, 2009. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood) September 13, 2009


Afghan children return towards their home after a time flying
their kite, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/
Manish Swarup) September 7, 2009


The scene as men pray in Khowst province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan,
Thursday, Sept. 3, 2009. U.S. troops in the area, conducting patrols
in conjunction with Afghan National Army soldiers. (AP Photo/Dima
Gavrysh) September 5, 2009


A boy carries bread on a street in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday,
Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh) August 27, 2009


Afghan women prepare supplies at a polling station for election
day in Mazar-I-Sharif, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2009. Afghans
will head to the polls on Aug. 20 to elect a new president. (AP
Photo/Farzana Wahidy) August 19, 2009


Afghan Jughi children, who live in a makeshift camp in the corner
of a construction site, pose for a picture in Mazar-I-Sharif in
northern Afghanistan August 18, 2009. The Jughis are a destitute,
homeless community, who say they originate from Uzbekistan, and
they live out of patchwork canopies and derelict low-rise mud walls
on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif. (REUTERS/Caren Firouz) August
18, 2009


An Afghan prisoner sits in a corridor in Herat prison, western
Afghanistan August 16, 2009. (REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi) August 16,
2009


An Afghan man prays on a river bank at dawn near the village
of Pashad, Afghanistan's Kunar province, August 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Oleg
Popov) August 12, 2009


In this July 12, 2009 photo, Sarab village residents walk down
a dirt path from one section of the village to the next in the Badakhshan
province of Afghanistan. Sitting at roughly 8,000 feet above sea
level and as the last village up a glacial river valley, makes travel
on rough roads to far away clinics and doctors difficult. 'Opium
is our doctor,' say residents who use the narcotic to alleviate
symptoms of illness.In dozens of mountain hamlets in this remote
corner of Afghanistan, opium addiction has become so entrenched
that whole families from toddlers to old men are addicts.
(AP Photo/Julie Jacobson) August 10, 2009


An Afghan street boy slices a tomato for drying on the wall
of a river in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009 (AP Photo/Musadeq
Sadeq) August 4, 2009


Three U.S. Army soldiers of Dagger Company, 2-12 Infantry, 4th
Brigade rest in the shade at Michigan Base before heading out on
a patrol in the Pesh Valley in Afghanistan's Kunar Province August
1, 2009. (REUTERS/Tim Wimborn) August 1, 2009


vAn Afghan barber watches the presidential candidates' debate
on television at his shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, July
23, 2009.Two leading candidates in the Aug. 20 presidential election
faced one another in an unprecedented television debate which
went ahead despite a decision by President Hamid Karzai not to take
part. Former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah and ex-finance minister
Ashraf Ghani both cited civilian casualties, searching private homes
without permission and arresting people without cause as major reasons
for opposition to the presence of U.S. and other international forces.
(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) July 23, 2009


Boys queue for home and school supplies distribution by Afghan
National Army (ANA) soldiers in the village of Baubus in Logar Province
in Afghanistan July 20, 2009. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov) July 21,
2009


Member of Parliament and presidential candidate Ramazan Bashar
Dost (R) shakes hands with an Afghan vendor during campaigning in
the streets of Kabul. Afghans go to the polls on August 20 to elect
a president for the second time in the history of their turbulent
country. (AFP/Shah Marai) July 19, 2009


An Afghan boy carries matting along the street in the market
at Pul-e-Khumri, Baghlan province of Afghanistan, Monday, July 13,
2009. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky) July 13, 2009


An Afghan boy watches US soldiers patrol in a village in eastern
Kunar province in April 2009. (AFP/File/Liu Jin) July 10, 2009


Afghan supporters of presidential candidate and former foreign
minister Abdullah Abdullah attend a campaign rally in Kabul, Afghanistan,
Tuesday, June 30, 2009. Afghans will head to the poles on Aug. 20
to elect a new president. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) July 1, 2009


An Afghan woman wearing a traditional hat attends a ceremony
marking Mother's Day in Kabul June 14, 2009. (REUTERS/Ahmad Masood)
June 14, 2009


An afghan girl stands next to the door of her house as Canadian
soldiers patrol the village of Bazaar e Panjwai in Kandahar, May
29, 2009. (REUTERS/Jorge Silva) May 31, 2009


An Afghan family travels by bicycle past a policeman at a check
point near Forward Operation Base (FOB) Masum Ghar in Kandahar province,
May 24, 2009. (REUTERS/Jorge Silva) May 24, 2009


Afghan men harvest opium in a poppy field in a village in Golestan
district of Farah province, May 4, 2009. (REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic)
May 4, 2009


An Afghan looks on as U.S solider of 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain
Division patrol during a search operation to hunt members of Taliban
in Nerkh district of Wardak province in west of Kabul, Afghanistan,
Sunday, May 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) May 3, 2009


Afghan children wash a carpet at a flooded area in Jalalabad,
the provincial capital of Nangarhar province. east of Kabul, Afghanistan
on Sunday, April 12, 2009. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) April 12, 2009


Afghan men sit on the ground as Canadian soldiers from the 1st
battalion Royal 22nd Regiment C company 7th platoon of the NATO-led
coalition patrol in the stronghold of Panjwaii in Kandahar province,
southern Afghanistan, April 10, 2009. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini)
April 10, 2009


Attiqullah 10, son of Hafizullah Shahbaz Khiel, an Afghan detainee
shows documents proclaiming Hafizullah's innocence during an interview
with Associated Press at his uncle's house on the outskirts of Kabul,Afghanistan,
Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009.Armed with documents proclaiming Hafizullah's
innocence for a second time his brothers and burly young nephews,
some of whom work for President Hamid Karzai's government, are trying
to get him released from U.S. custody. This time he is being held
at Bagram Air Base, north of the Afghan capital Kabul. He has been
there since the raid on his home late last September.
(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) April 03, 2009


A child near cans of water looks at Canadian soldiers of the
NATO-led coalition during their patrol in Kandahar, March 24, 2009.
(REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) March 24, 2009


Afghan horsemen play Afghanistan's national sport Buzkashi in
the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, March 20, 2009. Buzkashi
is the national sport of Afghanistan, which literally translated
means 'goat grabbing.' In Buzkashi, a headless carcass is placed
in the center of a circle and surrounded by the players of two opposing
teams. The object of the game is to get control of the carcass and
bring it to the scoring area. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) March 22,
2009


fghan President Hamid Karzai (right) dropped polio vaccines
into the mouths of four toddlers Sunday to launch a new immunisation
round amid fears unrest will prevent 200,000 children from being
protected.
(AFP/Shah Marai) March 15, 2009


Children walk with empty watering cans in a village in the Taliban
stronghold of Arghandab district in Kandahar province, southern
Afghanistan, March 12, 2009. (REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) March
12, 2009


An Afghan woman holds up her covered child as she walks in a
windy day in Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday Feb.
28, 2009. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa) February 28, 2009


Camels are seen fighting during a camel fighting to mark the
20th anniversary of the withdrawal of Russian soldiers from Afghanistan
in Mazar-i-Sharif, provincial capital of Balkh province, north of
Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, Feb. 14, 2008. Camel fighting is
popular in the north of the country along with dog fighting and
cock fighting. ((AP Photo/Eltaf Najafizada) February 15, 2009

An Afghan balloon seller drinks water from a hand pump in the
outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Rafiq
Maqbool) February 12, 2009.

An Afghan street vendor waits for customers as a woman passes
by in the city of Jalalabad, capital of Ningarhar province, east
of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Rahmat
Gul) Februay 01, 2009.

An Afghan girl carries bread as she arrives to sell them at
a market in the old city of Kabul, Monday, Jan 19, 2008. (AP Photo/Rafiq
Maqbool) January 19, 2009.

An Afghan protester burns a U.S.flag during a march against
Israel's air offensive over the Gaza Strip, in Kabul January 16,
2009. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani) January 17, 2009.

Afghan volunteer register themselves for war against Israel
at a local mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Jan. 9, 2009. (AP
Photo/Rafiq Maqbool) January 10, 2009.

An Afghan man, who was wounded during a U.S. strike in Alishing
district, lies on bed at a hospital in Laghman province, northeast
of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009. (AP Photo/Nesar
Ahmad) January 7, 2009.

An Afghan car washer gets water from a flooded river in the
city of Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2008. (AP Photo/Musadeq
Sadeq) December 25, 2008.

An Afghan street vender boy studies in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan.
(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) December 20, 2008.

An Afghan boy tries to get a view of Britain's Prime Minister
Gordon Brown during his visit to the Musa Qala district of Helmand
province, Afghanistan December 13, 2008. (REUTERS/Lewis Whyld/Pool)
December 13, 2008.

A toy guns are displayed for sale on the second day of the Eid
al-Adha festival in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2008. Muslims
worldwide are celebrating Eid al-Adha.. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
December 10, 2008.

An Afghan policeman keeps watch next to the German embassy vehicle
at the site of a suicide attack in Kabul November 30,2008. A suicide
bomber hit a German embassy vehicle in the Afghan capital on Sunday,
killing two local civilians, police said. (REUTERS/Omar Sobhani)
November 30, 2008.

Returned Afghan refugee girls attend a class at a makeshift
school in a refugee camp in Nangarhar province November 17, 2008.
Antonio Guterres, UN High Commissioner for Refugees told Reuters
a "massive effort" was needed to get Afghan refugees settled
back at home, and insufficient help was coming for an effort complicated
by the security situation. (REUTERS/Jonathon Burch) November 20,
2008.

An Afghan boy waits for customer at a generator shop in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 31, 2008. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) November
01, 2008.

Afghan demonstrators hold some portraits of their community.
The demonstrators were protesting this week's execution of 26 young
men from their community who were killed by Taliban militants in
Maiwand district of Kandahar province in the sout(AP Photo/Nesar
Ahmad) October 24, 2008.

A U.S. citizen casts her absentee ballot in a box in Kabul,
Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 17, 2008. U.S. soldiers, aid workers and
military contractors in Afghanistan are filling out absentee ballots
this week and sending them back to the states in hopes they arrive
in time to be counted by elections officials. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool))
October 19, 2008.

An Afghan boy places muddy pots into an oven for baking at a
muddy-pots making workshop in Charbulak district of Balkh province
north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Oct. 18, 2008. (AP Photo)
October 18, 2008.
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