KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - There's a buzz at the Zarghona Ana school for girls on the baking edge of Afghanistan's Registan desert on Sunday.
Playful chatter and laughter bounce off the thick, cooling green-and-white walls as dozens of women, most with burqas and veils pulled back comfortably off their face in the absence of men, wait to vote in the first parliamentary ballot in living memory.
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