AIBAK (Pajhwok): Poverty and unemployment has increased in northern Samangan province, forcing thousands of children into hard labour instead of going to school.
Mohammad Saleem, 11, is one of these children hailing from the GuzarAsyab Arab locality of Aibak, the provincial capital.
He wakes up every day early morning and accompanies his father to the river side where both of them excavate sand and gravel from the river bed.
“I come here with my father to take out gravel from the river bed. Now during winter the weather is very cold and entering river water in cold weather is very . . .
