KABUL, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Police in Afghanistan have rounded up more than 34,000 beggars from across the country over the past year to give an end to the culture of begging in society, a deputy on counter-narcotics of the Ministry of Interior Affairs said.

"We have rounded up 34,377 beggars over the past year," the National Radio and Television of Afghanistan (RTA) quoted Mullah Abdul Haq Akhund Hamkar on Sunday as saying.

Major parts of the collected beggars were fake and professional, the official told the state-owned media outlet, and saying the police after investigation have allocated a monthly allowance to the needy one and referred the professional beggars to the concerned entities for further investigation.

The Afghan caretaker government, according to the official, is committed to fighting the culture of begging as part of efforts to keep the society clean.

More than 23 million Afghans, about half of the population of the war-torn country, have reportedly been facing a food crisis. Enditem

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