NEW YORK - Badam Bagh prison is an improvement for Krishma and her young daughter.

Just two years ago, they lived in the female section of Pol-e-Charkhi, the notorious Afghan jail.

KABUL - It is not just the conventional military war the governments of Afghanistan and Pakistan are fighting in the rugged mountains shared by the South Asian neighbours.

KABUL - Some 2.8 million children under five years old in southern, south-eastern, western and eastern Afghanistan will be targeted by a new three-day polio eradication drive to be launched today.