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An Afghan Pashtun boy, who said he was forced from the troubled province of Baglan due to threats from the Taliban, looks on as he winds up for the day after scavenging for recyclables at a garbage dump site on Nov. 14, 2012 in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Afghan children wind up and collect their takings for the day after scavenging for recyclables at a garbage dump site.
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Afghan Pashtun boys, warm themselves by a fire near to a garbage dump site at night.
Children working at the garbage site in Kabul said they can make up to 90 Afghans (USD $1.75) per day collecting cans and other recyclable materials for sale. If they were to stay and work in their home province, with limited options for employment, and join the Police or Army, the Taliban threatened they would come for them and their families, they said.
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This is OK in the eyes of some.... For Karzai and his cronies have to remain "fat"........
This is not the first country to have children living off the waste of the cities.Whether from wars or conflicts, economic ,political or criminal issues. How tragic that it seems to always be the innocent, especially the children, who pay the highest price for man's inability to solve his own problems.
"Children working at the garbage site in Kabul said they can make up to 90 Afghans (USD $1.75) per day collecting cans and other recyclable materials for sale. If they were to stay and work in their home province, with limited options for employment, and join the Police or Army, the Taliban threatened they would come for them and their families, they said."
Sad side of wars! The conditions of girls, women and or minorities must be worse.
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and many other nations are human made disasters due to Islamic madness!
Afghan and Paki regions were quite prosperous before the followers of Islamic cult set their feet wearing different labels including the love and peace dancers, Sufis!
Taliban and other Islamic religious Nazis could not even tolerate Buddha's statue at Bamiyan!
Just ponder: who is getting hurt most in this religious madness!
Are there no sane Muslims to oppose the Islamic madness?
I feel bad for these children but the one thing I didn't see in this story is full disclosure of the facts. The children of Afghanistan have been sifting through the trash since before that country was at was with Russia. This is decades old news with a new twist and starring a new bad guy. Kinda like yet another remake of Children of the Corn!
The rich get fat, others remain skinny because of starvation
that country is one great s....t hole......poor kids