Poverty has given rise the major challenges that Afghan society has been struggling with for many decades. Kabul, the political capital of the country seems to be turning to a beggar capital. There is no single street in the city where beggars are not visible. There is no crossroads in the city where unsheltered women and children are not busy of cleaning the cars and begging for a loaf of bread.

Though, keeping finger count on the number of street beggars is quite difficult, but the government has tried to remove the beggars from the capital streets. The government in 2009 established Anti-Begging Commission to dislodge the beggars. The commission managed to remove around 820 beggars from the city.

According to disclosed statements by Nawroz Ali Alizada, the head of kindergartens and spokesman for the Anti-Begging Commission at a press conference, "among the dislodged people 447 of them were men, 240 women, 59 female children and 57 male children who used to beg at key intersections of the city. Of those, 153 were either drug addict or mentally retarded.

They were introduced to the ministry of Public Health for treatment. Alizada added 445 were handed over to their families, 10 orphans were introduced to the ministry of social affairs, labor, disables and martyrs and nearly a dozen more were handed over to the ministry of interior because they were vulnerable to using drugs again after treatment." Since then there has not been any report published by the commission that how successful they are of supporting the beggars.

Along Afghani beggars roaming around the city, there are many Pakistani beggars, male and female visible around the city. Pakistani beggars are using their children as the source of attractions for donations. As a result of heavy floods that wreaked their homes and properties in Pakistan, they have immigrated to Kabul.

Along being homed and financed byMarastoon (a social service help center)  run by Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) here in Kabul  to provide them food and shelter, they still keep on begging and roaming around the city.

The country is able to finance 10% of its expenses as the international community is planning to withdraw the international combat troops from the region. The concerned authorities really need to work very hard so as to fight the menace of begging as it has the capacity to generate many other evils, as well.