A 22-year-old woman committed suicide and a three-year-old child died after drowning in a pond in northern Faryab province officials said on Thursday. Maulavi Shmsullah Mohammadi, the provincial Information and Culture director, told Pajhwok Afghan News that a…
Security forces have found the body of a child who drowned in the Pul-i-Khorasan River three weeks ago in northern Jawzjan province. Police spokesman Abdul Sattar Halimi identified the boy as Mohibullah, son of Mohammad. The boy had…
A 10-year-old boy was injured while playing with friends in the Chora district of central Uruzgan province and died on the way to hospital. According to the Uruzgan Department of Information and Culture, the incident took place in…
The Director of Social Affairs Department of northern Sar-i-Pul province says 2,500 children are involved in labour in the province. Mawlavi Mohammad Mubashir told Pajhwok Afghan News the Child Protection Committee and Social Affairs Department had jointly registered…
A child has been rescued from his kidnappers and one of the abductors arrested and a second one was killed during a clash with security forces in western Herat province, the spy service said on Sunday. The child…
A child who fell into a well in Khakrez district of southern Kandahar province was rescued after 22 hours, officials said Tuesday. A five-year-old girl fell into a well in Lalak area of the district on Monday…
A three years old boy died on Sunday after falling into a deep-well in the Nawzad district of southern Helmand province, an official said. Provincial Information Director Mawlavi Mohammad Qasim Reyaz told Pajhwok Afghan News a child fell…
A mobile team health service to serve mother-child health kicked off in five districts of southeastern Paktia province, an official said on Wednesday. The scheme is being implemented with support of UNICEF in far-flung area where people don’t…
A 12-year-old boy abducted from Balkh province on November 4th was rescued on Monday in central Parwan province. Mullah Awal Gul Haqparast, police chief of Parwan, said Zabihullah had been abducted from Balkh province and was being kept…
Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a child and injured his father in limits of the 12th police district of Kabul. Gul Hassan, brother of the injured, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place on Tuesday evening. He…
A 12-year-old boy has been savagely beaten by Taliban militants in northern Faryab province because his father is a security official in northern Jawzjan province, but the Taliban denied the allegation, blaming it on the boy’s uncle. Faryab…
An illegal armed group commander, Nizamuddin Qaisari, on Thursday said he could expose the kidnappers of a nine-years-old boy in northern Balkh province if the Presidential Palace and the National Security Council asked him for help. He said…
KABUL. Sahra is a resident of Shuhadai Salehin area of capital Kabul. In addition to studying in fifth grade in Qala-e-Heshmat Khan School in Kabul, she has been working as a shoe shiner since past three years to earn for…
Eleven years old Safiullah in northern Jawzjan province is addicted to heroin after consuming opium for months, but now he wants to get rid of the habit and seeks government’s help to rehabilitate himself. Approximately 30,000 persons, including…
The sale of a two-month-old baby by his poverty-stricken parents in northern Faryab province has been stopped in northern Faryab province, the governor’s office said on Monday. Deputy Governor Abdul Muqeem Rasikh told Pajhwok Afghan News they were…
Police in western Herat province arrested a man and his wife and rescued a two and a half years old child they had kidnapped, the Ministry of Interior said on Friday. According to the Ministry of Interior’s Facebook…
Police personnel rescued a two-year-old child and detained two suspects in connection with the abduction in western Herat province on Thursday, an official said. Police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada told Pajhwok Afghan News that security forces were rescued…
Unidentified people kidnapped a 13-year-old child from first police district of Charikar, the capital of central Parwan province on Wednesday, an official said. Farhad Hashemi, provincial crime branch chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News Mohammad Ismail, was kidnapped by…
Police rescued a child and arrested two kidnappers in northern Samangan province, an official said on Sunday. Police spokesman Munir Rahaimi told Pajhwok Afghan News the child was the son of a businessman and had been abducted from…
Esmatullah, a ten years old boy who lost one of his legs to a mortar shell strike in northern Kunduz province, is hoping for peace and stability to come to Afghanistan so children of his age do not…
A kidnapped child is shown in a video clip innocently crying and says he will die if not rescued, local officials in western Farah province said on Sunday. Police have launched an operation to find the location…
