KABUL, adding 120 people were killed or wounded in landmine explosions every month.
Najib Aqa Fahim, the state minister for natural disasters management, addressing a ceremony marking ‘International Landmine Awareness Day,’ here said that 3,100 square kilometers of the country’s soil had been cleared of landmines and more than 19 million landmines defused.
He said government’s inattention to increasing landmines clearance budget and negligence of the international community in this regard had troubled the clearing process.
He asked the national unity . . .
AH
Azizullah Hamdard
