In this Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, photo an Afghan girl, right, practices playing the piano in a class at the Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul, Afghanistan. Dozens of Afghan teenagers including former street kids or orphans aged 10 to 22, will be playing in the Afghan Youth Orchestra which begins a 12-day U.S. tour on Feb. 3 and includes concerts at Washington's Kennedy Center - President Barrack Obama has been invited - New York's Carnegie Hall and the New England Conservatory in Boston. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

DENIS D. GRAY
Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Not so long ago Fakira roamed the mean streets of the Afghan capital, hawking magazines for 13 U.S. cents apiece to support her poverty-stricken family.
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