A social issue is a problem that influences many citizens within a society. It is a common problem in present-day society and one that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's control. Civil war has brought a variety of social ills in Afghanistan, such as poverty, interethnic strife, inequality of women, and widespread thievery, kidnapping, and banditry. Blood feuds handed down through generations are legendary, and revenge is regarded as a necessary redress of wrongs. The civil war has strengthened these tendencies.

1. Ahmad Shabir
MBA 1 Section D
Seminar group G7
Roll N:20421225

2. Content:
 Concept of Social Issues
 About Afghanistan
 Social issues in Afghanistan
 Poverty as a Social issue in Afghanistan
 Security Issues
 Health and Healthcare Issues
 Unemployment Issues
 Child abuse and Child labor
 Violence against women
 Illiteracy issue
 Drug abuse and drug addiction
 Immigrations issues

3. What is social issue?

4. Definition
 Social issues are moral problems that affect members of society directly or indirectly,
some of this issues include, poverty, security, crime, addiction to drugs, immigrations,
divorces and etc..

5.  A social issue is a problem that influences many citizens within a society.
 Social issues are Common problem in present-days
 Societies and countries strive to solve.

6. do you know about Afghanistan?

7. A brief introduction to Afghanistan
 Afghanistan is mostly mountainous country mountains occupies two-thirds
of the country
 Afghanistan bordered with Uzbekistan,
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, China,
Pakistan and Iran
 Afghanistan has four major rivers
Kabul, the Helmand, the Amu Darya,
and the Harirud

8.  Afghanistan have 34 provinces and the capital of Afghanistan is Kabul
Afghanistan is approximately the size
of Texas.

9.  population of Afghanistan is 39 million as of Monday, February 8, 2021
 82.7 - 89.7% Sunni, Shia Muslims between 10 - 17%.
 0.3% follow other minority religions.

10. Social Issues in Afghanistan
 Civil war has brought a variety of social ills in Afghanistan, such as poverty,
insecurity, immigration, violence against women etc…

11. Poverty as a Social issue in Afghanistan
 51.7% of Afghans live in multidimensional poverty.
 The urban poverty rate is 18.1%, whereas the rural rate is 61.1%. 14.7% of the
population in Kabul are poor
 Herat and Nangarhar are home to the highest number of poor people.

12. Security Issues
 three decades of war in country brought many challenges
 1979, the Soviet union military invaded Afghanistan,
 Pakistani, United States, Saudi, and other states that backed Afghan mujahedeen
 Soviets finally withdrew in 1989,
 1 million Afghans had been killed
 five million fled abroad.
 15,000 Soviet soldiers were dead and 35,000 wounded.
 the Taliban emerged in Southern Afghanistan

13. Why war and insecurity in Afghanistan?

14.  Afghanistan Ranked the second least peaceful country in the world
 (Reuters) - Nearly 6,000 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded in the first nine months of
the year as heavy fighting between government forces and Taliban
 The Taliban were responsible for 45% of civilian casualties while government troops caused
23%, it said. U.S.-led international forces were responsible for 2%.

15. Health and Healthcare Issues
 After 23 years of conflict, Afghanistan’s health system is among the very poorest in the
world.
 There are inadequate supplies of medicines, vaccines, equipment and fuel.
 An estimated 6 million people have no access, or insufficient access to health care.
 Saving lives in Afghanistan depends on having health workers in the field and sufficient
medical supplies, as well as food, shelter and security.
 the gap in material and human resources is great
 mental stress, affecting every family in Afghanistan over time.

16.  30% of Afghans lack access to basic health services
 Only 60% of Afghans have access to health services across the country

17. Unemployment
 Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges facing the Afghan people
 particularly members of the younger generation
 Around 68% of the country’s population of some 31 million people is under the age of 25
 since the Taliban were driven out in 2001, and the per capita income in Afghanistan has
grown from $115 in 2001 to 570.00 USD in 2020 according to the World Bank.
 but unemployment has remained persistently high

19. Child abuse and Child labor
 Child labor is an issue of growing concern in Afghanistan.
 1 out of 4 Afghan children aged seven to 14 is engaged in some form of hard work.
 Poverty is an obvious contextual factor that dominates the decision-making of all households to
send their childes to work.
 Poor households that send their children to school instead of work are able to justify short-term
sacrifice with the prospect of long-term gains.

20. Childe Abuse
 Children are one of the most vulnerable groups of society, but the children of Afghanistan
are more vulnerable than other children .
 children are faced with serious threats like kidnapping, trafficking, sexual abuse and sexual
exploitation, drug addiction, murder, beatings
 According to the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs Martyrs and Disabled, about six and a half
million children are at risk.
 and about 300 thousand children are addict

21. Violence against women
 Violence against women is one of the most serious human rights issues in Afghanistan
 Although important achievements have been made in different areas
 During war in Women’s rights and freedoms were severely restricted
 Grave human rights abuses included extra-judicial executions, torture, sexual violence,
disappearances, displacement, forced marriage, trafficking and abduction.
 During Taliban time it was difficult for women to go out
 On that time girls was avoided to attend schools
 Afghanistan has one of the worst maternal mortality rates in the world
 one woman dies every 27 minutes due to pregnancy-related complications. This amounts to
around 25,000 deaths per annum

22. Illiteracy issue
 38.2 % of the population literate
 60% are illiterate.
 9.4 million students in Afghan schools
 3.7 % had dropped out of school
 by 2030, 60 % of the Afghan population will be literate.
 The Taliban now sometimes prefer to control schools rather than to close them.

23. Restrictions on Girls access to Education
 Taliban commanders sometimes deny or restrict access girls to school’
 cultural factors.
 lack of security, non-availability of female teachers
 girls usually stop school at around sixth grade

24. Drug abuse and drug addiction
 Drug addiction social problem worldwide
 200 million of the global population, aged 15-64 are addicted.
 509,000 Afghan households being involved in opium cultivation which makes 14 % of the total
population of Afghanistan
 920,000 using drug in AFG ; out of which 120,000 are women
 women’s success in quitting will be developed
 Afghanistan is the exclusive supplier of opium producing 93% of the global opiate market

25. Immigrations
 the first large wave of modern outmigration from Afghanistan, caused by the Soviet invasion in
1979
 most migrants are in Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan
 Between 2002 and 2012, 5.7 million Afghans returned home
 the existence of cross-border networks also used for human trafficking operations

26. Conclusion
 Afghan people become more bored and tired of social issues
 number of immigrations or increasing because of unemployment among Afghan young
generation
 the poverty rate is also growing fast
 Security and Political settlement remains elusive
 None the less, unless the Taliban enter into peace talks, violent resistance will continue
 Economically, Afghanistan remains heavily dependent on foreign aid.
 The country will need to seriously focus on generating domestic sources of revenue to support
state expenditures and to provide employment opportunities for its citizens