Reuters' Pictures of the year 2006:Afghan women covered by burqas walk in the yard of the shrine of Imam Ali, son in-law of Prophet Mohammad, in the city of Mazar-i-Shariff, about 420 km (260 miles) north of Kabul, Afghanistan May 8, 2006. [Reuters]

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