[ToloNews] The Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Thursday said that at least 400 Afghan non-combatants were killed and maimed over the past three months in eastern Afghanistan.
Out of the total number of fatalities, 114 non-combatants were killed and 300 were maimed, the AIHRC said.
"The Independent Human Rights Commission again calls on the warring sides to stop the war and make peace," said Habib Shams, the AIHRC site office in the east.
In the latest development, at least three non-combatants were killed and ten others were maimed after two missiles hit residential areas in the Alishing district of Laghman
...Afghan province with a population of about 445,600, which is multi-ethnic and mostly a rural society. During the invasions of Alexander the Great, the area was known as Lampaka, wich is apparently Olde Macedonian for Laghman .The city of Mihtarlam serves as the bucolic capital of the province. The population is half Pashtun, the remainder Tadjik and Pashai. It had a repution for great wealth until it was conquered in the tenth century by Abu Mansur Sabuktigin. He conquered it and set fire to the places in its vicinity which were inhabited by infidels, and demolishing the idol-temples, he established Islam in them, He marched and captured other cities and killed the polluted wretches, destroying the idolatrous and gratifying the Musulmans. After wounding and killing beyond all measure, his hands and those of his friends became cold in counting the value of the plundered property. After that it was mostly notable for the production of dirt, rocks, and holy men...
province.
Residents in Alishing district say they are tired of war.
Khairkhaw is a resident of Islamabad village in Alishing district. He said that on Monday night a missile hit his house and killed his sister and maimed another six members of his family, including his mother and father.
Shah Mahmoud, a 9-year-old Afghan child, was maimed as a result of a missile attack in eastern Afghanistan. Mahmoud’s parents were seriously maimed in the attack.
"We were at home, two of our guests were martyred, one of my sisters was also martyred," said Khairkhaw.
"It's now 15 days that the fighting rages on, schools are closed, the situation is fragile and we can't even go for prayer," said Malook, a resident in Alising.
"A mortar landed, I don’t know whether it was fired by the government forces or the Taliban
 ...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, the mortar took lives of civilians," said Ghulam Haidar, a resident in Alishing.
Residents in Laghman have called on the warring sides to stop the fighting as soon as possible. 
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