International community is walking out of Afghanistan. They have had military, political, economic/financial and even cultural presence in this troubled part of the world for the last ten years after they got attacked by lunatic fringes harboring in this country. Afghan people would see security, peace, stability and prosperity lying in the presence of international community in their country.

So they welcomed and supported international community as their allies and helpers. Afghan people would hear and watch the flow of international aid into their country but without any tangible results for their own lives. Needless to say, international aid was siphoned off by corrupt people who managed to get into a corrupt network developed by Presidential office and the circles around it and down to the provinces, districts and villages.

It was president Karzai who in a gathering told predatory officials to continue to steal but spend in the country. Instead of walking out in protest against promotion of predatory culture by the president of the country, the audience- that included ministers and high-ranking government officials- greeted it with waves of laughter and smiles.

As a result, today the country is bringing up, in its lap, child laborers due to poverty and unemployment opportunities. About two million children are reported to be involved in child labor. A new assessment conducted by ILO in cooperation with Samuel Consulting Hall found that more than half of the laborers involved in brickmaking in the kilns are Afghan children.

In today's modern world, politics and government cannot be separated from delivering services to the citizens of a given territory, called country. There are three main functions a government is supposed to do in a country: to provide security; to work as arbitrator to resolve disputes between and among the citizens; and to deliver services.

Afghan government has failed to fulfill these functions but it is particularly unable to provide services. Failure to deliver services to the people generates gap between the government and people, which in turn contributes to growing insecurity in the country as people could fall prey to the recruitment for wages and money.

Unfortunately, over the last ten years, Afghan government and President Hamid Karzai have been engrossed in internal political games at the cost of ignoring Afghan people. As a result, extreme and backbreaking poverty has prevailed across the country.

Now that international community is abandoning the country, there is no security, peace, stability and prosperity left behind, as longed for by Afghan people ten years back when Afghanistan was catapulted into the world's attention. The question is, "Is there any moral sense still alive to care about those children that grapple with the brickmaking in kilns?" If yes, how is it going to manifest itself to move the wealth from predatory officials down to the poor Afghans?