Doctors in America operated on 16-year-old Najeebullah’s eye, yesterday. Surgeons gave him a prosthetic lense after shrapnel from a Taliban rocket tore into his left eye four weeks ago. His friend Zaman, who travelled to North Carolina with Najeebullah, said: “He is at home today and doing well. The doctor put a lens in Najeeb’s eye, so hopefully he will be able to see.” Najibullah’s brother Hamidullah was killed in the blast. This photo shows an earlier operation at the Nato hospital in Kabul.

Doctors in America operated on 16-year-old Najeebullah’s eye, yesterday. Surgeons gave him a prosthetic lense after shrapnel from a Taliban rocket tore into his left eye four weeks ago.

His friend Zaman, who travelled to North Carolina with Najeebullah, said: “He is at home today and doing well. The doctor put a lens in Najeeb’s eye, so hopefully he will be able to see.”

Najibullah’s brother Hamidullah was killed in the blast. This photo shows an earlier operation at the Nato hospital in Kabul.