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The polling stations are in Paktika province, where incumbent President Hamid Karzai has considerable support.
CNN: Hundreds of Afghan votes declared invalid
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The U.S. led-coalition said militants in Paktika province attacked two district centers in the province on Tuesday.
CNN: Afghan fighting claims four coalition soldiers
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Think of Khalida, a young Afghan woman enrolled in a UNESCO course at a training center in Paktika Province, Afghanistan.
UNESCO: EDUCATION
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Bergdahl was captured three weeks ago in the Paktika province in southeastern Afghanistan, according to the Department of Defense.
CNN: Yellow ribbons, vigil for hometown's captured soldier
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Taliban commander Mulvi Sangeen said he visited a military post in the Yousaf Khel district in the Paktika province, got drunk, and was ambushed while returning to his car.
CNN: U.S. soldier captured by Taliban: 'I'm afraid'
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On August 17th, several hundred neo-Taliban swept across a porous border from Pakistan into Paktika province, storming a police station and gunning down eight Kabul loyalists, including the local police chief and his son.
ECONOMIST: Dealing with the rising violence
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U.S. military and local officials also reported fighting in the southeastern province of Paktika on Tuesday morning.
CNN: Bomber kills 7 near U.S. base in Afghanistan
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The king's arrival has been welcomed not only by fellow members of the Pushtun ethnic majority, like Mohammed Ali Jalali, of the eastern province of Paktika, but even by General Wasequllah, an ethnic Tajik and former Northern Alliance commander, who has just been named a general in the new Afghan army.
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