Feature: Hunger behind hospital walls -- silent struggle of malnourished children in Kabul

KABUL, March 11 (Xinhua) -- In a pediatric ward in Afghanistan's Kabul, the room is quiet except for the soft cries of infants. Mothers sit beside narrow metal beds, gently rocking babies whose bodies are far smaller than they should be.

Some children are so thin that their arms seem almost weightless beneath the hospital sheets. Others look unusually swollen, their fragile bodies holding fluid where strength sh