Life in an Afghan Village in Paktika Province

ORGUNE, PAKTIKA - OCTOBER 13: A warden prepares to open a door to a cell block at a police jail October 13, 2009 in Orgune, Afghanistan. Both local criminals and suspected militants brought in by Afghanistan's powerful National Directorate of Security are housed at the jail, located in the Orgune main police station and government complex. While located in the heart of the tense Pashtun belt of eastern Afghanistan, the town of Orgune has been spared the worst of the violence that has afflicted nearby villages, allowing residents who fled the area during Soviet invasion in the 1980s and civil war in the 1990s to return and rebuilt a semblance of normal life. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)