KHOST CITY (PAN officials said on Sunday. The 40 newborns who died had less than a kilo of weight, Public Health Director Dr. Hidayatullah Hamidi told Pajhwok Afghan News during an exclusive interview. He linked the increasing infant mortality rate…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN. A doctor at the Balkh Civil Hospital, Abdul Rauf Farogh, told Pajhwok Afghan News the children included three boys and as many girls. The condition of one baby was a bit worrisome due low weight, he said. It…
KABUL): Participants of a two-day seminar in Kabul on Saturday floated a number of suggestions for improvement in the situation of children in the country, where 6.5 million minors are living in vulnerable conditions. The seminar was jointly arranged…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): The foundation stone of a correction and training centre for child prisoners was laid in southern Helmand province on Wednesday. A foundation stone-laying ceremony was attended by Governor Muhammad Gulab Mangal, members of Wolesi Jirga, tribal elders and…
KABUL's Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) head on Saturday said people's access to justice has not improved and about two million children are forced into hard labour. Seema Samar, who released a two-year report of the commission at a press…
AIBAK (PAN officials in northern Samangan province on Wednesday said more than 40,000 children infected with measles had been vaccinated during a five-day campaign. In order to prevent spread of the disease, public health ministry officials conducted the drive in…
KABUL): The United Nations on Tuesday called for all Afghan groups to prevent children's recruitment as soldiers, suicide attackers and end their sexual abuse. "Children should no more be used, whether it is in soldiers, for suicide attacks or for…
HERATCITY (PAN, officials said on Saturday. Seven insurgents were detained with weapons and explosives in the Bakwa district of Farah province, NATO's media office for western zoon said in a statement. Another two militants were captured in Pusht Rod district,…
KABUL's most dangerous places for children. There is intensified fighting and increased suffering now at the start of the new "fighting season" in Afghanistan, with renewed hardship for children, Crowley said in a statement on International Children's Day (June 1).…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Three children were killed and two others injured in a blast in the northern province of Balkh on Tuesday, officials said. The explosion took place at 8:30am when the children were playing with unexploded ordnance in the Karta…
GHAZNICITY(PAN): Two children were cut into pieces beyond recognition when a bomb planted beneath a culvert went off in southern Ghazni province, witnesses and officials said on Sunday. The children saw a wire under a small bridge and started pulling…
KABUL said on Wednesday. Forty of the ailing children would be sent to Pakistan, India and to hospitals in Kabul, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) head, Fatima Gilani, told a news conference in Kabul. Of the 40 children having…
ASADABAD (PAN-fired mortar shell in Manogai district of eastern Kunar province on Monday, an official said. Fired during a clash, the shell landed in the house of Gulzada at 11am, the district police chief, Abdur Rahman Bashardost, told Pajhwok Afghan…
ASADABAD (PAN): Five children, playing cricket, were injured when a mortar shell landed near them in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, residents said. The incident took place in the Manogi district in the evening, resident Yar Pacha told Pajhwok Afghan…
