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Two Afghan boys from the Pashtun tribe hide their faces from the camera as a soldier from the Afghan National Army (ANA) looks on at a random stop to collect biodata from a villager on September 8, 2012 during a joint patrol comprising officers from the 1st Platoon, 1-64 Armored Batallion of the US Army, operating under NATO command, and ANA at the Morghan-Khecha village in Daman district, Kandahar province. Afghanistan's first vice president on September 8 warned deteriorating security could jeopardize transparent elections in 2014 as Kabul prepares to take over from NATO troops. President Hamid Karzai, who has been the only elected head of state in Afghanistan since the 2001 US-led invasion brought down the Taliban, is due to stand down in His re-election in 2009 was accompanied by widespread fraud and the international community sees the next vote as one of the last major hurdles before NATO combat troops withdraw at the end of 2014.
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