The tiny bundle looked so vulnerable huddled on the dirty adult-sized bed in the Al-Hajeri Al-Khidmat hospital in Quetta yesterday.
Hamid Ullah, just 12 months old, is the first of an expected wave of civilian war-wounded arriving in Pakistan for treatment from conflict-torn Afghanistan.
The baby is one of five people who survived a bombing attack which obliterated his small village near the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar last Sunday. The blast reportedly killed 22 members of Hamid's extended family, including his four brothers and sisters.
The wounded were having their simple evening meal in their mud-brick homes in Tarin Kannt when the bombs came at around 8 p.m.
The patients have burns, shrapnel injuries and broken bones, all consistent with bomb blasts. One is suffering from trauma and has not spoken since Sunday.
The arrival of the five, and the story they told yesterday, are among the first verifiable evidence that civilians are being hit by the nightly United States bombing campaign.
They endured a 10-hour ambulance journey on rough roads to get to Pakistan after receiving two days of care in an overcrowded clinic in Spinbaldak.
The ruling Taliban are claiming that the number of wounded in the US-led airstrikes, which began almost three weeks ago, is running into thousands.
The Pentagon insists on a daily basis that civilians are never deliberately targeted and points out that they are in a war situation.
The treatment available in this hospital in Quetta is not sophisticated but is far ahead of what is available in Afghanistan. None of the patients was hooked up to intravenous drips.
The beds were covered in filthy stained sheets and the wards reeked of urine. Flies were everywhere.
The family claim that no one in the village was a Taliban supporter, and that all of the 22 killed were innocent civilians.
Pakistani authorities are trying to ensure that the wounded from the conflict receive only initial emergency care here, but return to Afghanistan as soon as they are well enough.