I want to know the answer to the following question:
What present-day country is Avicenna's father thought to have come from?
All the background I'm provided with is that "His mother, named Setareh, was from Bukhara; his father, Abdullah, was a respected Ismaili scholar from Balkh, an important town of the Samanid Empire, in what is today Balkh Province, Afghanistan, although this is not universally agreed upon.". Is that enough to answer the question?