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Poverty forces Afghan children into smuggling
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Oct 11 08
Witnessed: 1981 times
Regions: Afghanistan, Pakistan
Issues: Child labor, Food & health & development, Poverty
Tags: Afghanistan, child labor, Food Crisis, food shortage, humanitarian, hunger, police brutality, Poverty
Poverty in Afghanistan is driving some families to take desperate measures.
They are sending boys as young as five across the border into Pakistan, to buy cheap flour, and smuggle it back home.
But the youngsters are risking injury, even death.
Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports. (October 3, 2008)
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