Feature: Deadly malnutrition haunting Afghan kids amid lingering sanctions
by Xinhua writer Zhao Jiasong
KABUL, July 12 (Xinhua) -- With hands trembling and tears streaming down her face, a grief-stricken mother reluctantly bid farewell to her infant, lost to the cruel grip of acute malnutrition, a devastating affliction that ravages countless children in Afghanistan.
Such a scene is not rare at the malnutrition ward of the Kabul-based Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, a