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Afghan Children
Mar 5 2009, Ikramuddin Bahram

In the biginning of a new educational year in Afghanistan, which has started a few days earlier than the years before, the Minister for Education Dr. Farooq Wardak said that over half a million school going afghan children will remain deprived of...

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