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Afghan women are commissioned into the army

The first female Afghan officers since the early 1990s have been commissioned into the army.

Twenty-nine women passed out from a class of new recruits who hope to take the lead role in security from foreign forces by 2014.

Their recruitment is part of a huge US-funded training programme. Women were forbidden from serving by the Taliban.

Women served in the army of Afghanistan's communist-backed regime in the 1980s but retreated from military service during the country's ensuing civil war....
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