America's General
Pakistan takes its most crucial decision since the 1971 war — to side with the US against the Taliban. The clerics may protest, but Musharraf has few options.

ECONOMIC IMPACT
Where Are We Going?
Fear and uncertainty stalk the Indian economy as early damages begin to show.

Ready For Battle
Where will the US strike, with what and how? A report on the military options before the global coalition that the Americans are building against terrorism.

Shifting Stance
Indian foreign policy is in a flux following the terrorist strikes in the US, metamorphosing in tandem with the tectonic shift in the geopolitical landscape of the world.

Menace In The Mind
People like bin Laden are not so much politicising religion as religionising politics.

NEWSNOTES

TREMORS Sports Bodies And How They Fare
	BCCI: The cricket body has posted a record threefold increase in revenues despite match-fixing.
	IOA: The Afro-Asian Games, Suresh Kalmadi's pet project, is indefinitely postponed.
	AIFF: The already unpopular football federation's Bengal unit has gone on strike for higher salaries.
	SAI: Swimming champion Khazan Singh has blamed the body for "dooming Indian sport".

Constant suspicion, poverty, ill-health and lack of work dog Afghan asylum seekers in India. INDIA TODAY's Principal Correspondent Anna M.M. Vetticad meets some of them.
Living On The Edge