KABUL — It was well below freezing in Raza Khan’s tiny concrete apartment late one recent night. Half a dozen children huddled under blankets on the floor, coughing in their sleep. The fire in the rusty stove had faded to ashes, and there was no more wood to stoke it. Sometime before dawn, Khan’s 3-month-old granddaughter, breathing raggedly from pneumonia, grew still and died. – By Pamela Constable, Washington Post Foreign Service, Jan 27, 2007