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Audio slideshow: Afghan aid worker

As Afghan voters go to the polls, Kabul aid worker Zainab Wahidi tells BBC News Online about her life. Formerly a university lecturer in philosophy, she was thrown out of her job by the Taleban. She now works among Afghanistan's many widows.

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