An old Afghan vendor carries a sack of carrots on his back from a vegetable market in Kabul Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003. Drought for the last four years and not a good crop in this season have resulted in high prices of vegetables. [AP]

Afghan children take lesson of Koran at a Shiite mosque during the holy month of Ramadan in Kabul, Afghanistan , Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2003.  [AP]