KABUL: Top US official reacts over incident of massive "Bacha Bazi" against 500 Afghan children. US Assistant Secretary of State for South and central Asia has called on the Afghan officials to take “decisive actions” regarding the alleged pedophile ring, which according to reports have been ...

WASHINGTON: US troops who served in Afghanistan were previously told that “nothing could be done” about child sex abuse at the hands of Afghan security forces, according to a government report released Thursday.The Department of Defense’s Office of the Inspector General began reviewing ...

The Afghan government has included the sexual abuse of children ‘Bacha Baazi’ crime in its revised penal code.The Minister of Justice Abdul Basir Anwar informed regarding the inclusion of the crime in the penal code during a press conference in Kabul today.He said the sexual abuse of children ...

KABUL: Afghanistan is set to lay out stringent penalties for "bacha bazi" -- sexual slavery and abuse of boys -- for the first time, officials say, in a landmark move against the deeply entrenched practice.AFP revealed last year how the Taliban were exploiting rampant bacha bazi in police ranks to ...