The decades of prevalent conflict and war in Afghanistan shambled everything, ranging from infrastructural to socio-political downfall, reasonless bloodshed followed by enormous people rendered physically impaired, counts to be ill consequences of those endless conflicts. Most often we see people with unpaired body part, sitting at the corner of streets haplessly asking for financial help from every passerby. This is the disappointing picture of neglected section of society, battered by negligence of government not willing to rehabilitate them.

With exception to handicapped people, children and women are also dragged to begging as witnessed on the street of urbanized cities. Reportedly, some clandestine gangs are renting children of penniless families; drug them with opium to further their malicious design. The wide indifference of government facilitates, begging turn into one of the illegal trades in our war-torn country.

The government fallaciously deems putting restrictions might win a congenial solution to this emerging problem. In this pursuit street-begging was outlawed in November 2008 by government and a commission formed was made up of different government bodies and the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) to end street-begging in the capital.

Nevertheless, it did not help, instead the number seems to have grown in the last few years, and many of the beggars are women and children. The Afghanistan Human Rights Independent Commission (AHRIC) estimates there are 60,000 child addicts in the country. Opium is the most common drug sown and used in the street of the country unchecked. The addict children are used as a tool to earn money for respective gangs. This is alarming figure narrating the grave human rights violation where children are subjected to ill-treatment under the very nose of concerned departments.

Afghanistan suffers from many problems, poverty being one of the greatest. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has calculated that nearly half of Afghanistan's estimated 30 million people live on less than 1 USD a day. Poverty might serve one of the reasons pushing great majority of young population towards illegal means of earning. Many concerned public officials lack, the requisite data pertaining to the underlined figure, depicts the degree of interest of government toward this issue. Viewing the worsening state of affairs, one finds the lack of interest concerning welfare of masses as the greatest reason for ongoing notorious condition. Some of public officials hesitant to take action against such criminal acts may be allegedly involved in the trade.

The widespread misappropriation, embezzlement and corruption seem to be another problem not letting the government concentrate on this very issue. Some of the concerning organizations and departments like Afghan Red Crescent Society, which was part of the anti-begging commission, established in 2009, has been hamstrung by a funds crisis, acknowledged by another reputable organization of AIHRC. The government must come forth devising strategies to fight out this very menace; infiltrating in the society at present before it reaches to the point of no return.