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How Long Will The
War Last?
Three weeks into the world's most high tech war and the Taliban regime
has not crumbled. Instead, there seems to be discordant noises from America
over the strategic objectives of the campaign. With the Northern Alliance
advance halted and diplomacy making slow progress, this is a war that
could run on and on. An EXCLUSIVE report.
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STRATEGY
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Advantage Outsiders
With the balance tilted against it, the Taliban
regime will soon find itself vanquished.
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Lull Before The
Storm
Amid calls for a quick and decisive end to the
conflict, Afghanistan has been abuzz with talk of an imminent Northern
Alliance ground war against the Taliban.
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RUSSIA
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History's Pointers
The Soviet Union's 10 years campaign in
Afghanistan — a conflict that led to a humiliating withdrawal and,
some say, its eventual breakup
— can be a learning experience for
the US.
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OTHER STORIES
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CAPLOOKS
Diplomatic Retreat
 Delhi:
Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh recently declared that the workload in his
ministry and the Ministry of Defence had become onerous after the September
11 terrorist strikes. But his friend Arun Singh, whom he once described
as the "best defence minister", does not seem to agree. Arun Singh
opted out just when things were hotting up in South Block, giving his resignation
to Jaswant, not to the reinducted George Fernandes. Advice not needed or
advisers not wanted?
Pique And Prejudice
Lucknow: A pr exercise gone wrong. When
the Uttar Pradesh Information Department enumerated Chief Minister Rajnath
Singh's contributions in an article on the reforms in education in its
magazine, most saw it as another appendage to the chief minister's image-building
exercise. But not Higher Education Minister Om Prakash Singh. "Don't
you know who the higher education minister is? Next time, I will not spare
you for such a mistake.You tell this to the chief minister too,"
the minister railed at the IAS officer responsible. Fighting for credits?
Not quite. Rajnath is planning to divest Om Prakash Singh of two of the
three portfolios he holds.
Grain Drain
 Jaipur:
Rajathan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot got a crash course from veteran rival
Bhairon Singh Shekhawat on how to cook millet-and extract political mileage
in the row over millet procurement price. Millet khichri with yogurt is
a popular Rajasthani meal. "But Gehlot is trying to eat it with milk,"
Shekhawat quipped. More was to come. Before leaving for China, Shekhawat
delivered a parting shot. "If Gehlot wants to cook khichri, he should
know that millet grains tend to fly out of the pan and stick to the cook."
Gehlot may come out of the mess without any grains on his face, but Shekhawat
will still have the last laugh.
Borrowed Feathers
 Mumbai:
Who says Sharad Pawar's Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) isn't growing?
In Maharashtra, where it rules with the Congress, it has been fattening
itself at the expense of another Democratic Front partner-Mulayam Singh
Yadav's Samajwadi Party. The two-member party vanished from the state
Assembly this week when Housing Minister Nawab Malik-who had been expelled
from the SP-promptly switched sides to the NCP. No gain, no loss for the
front, only a feather in Pawar's cap. But Mulayam has very few feathers
left in Maharashtra. The SP had lost its first MLA under similar circumstances
last year.
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Bonefix is generally used to fix
soles to shoes. But at the Bhopal Railway Station, it affords young children
an escape from their nondescript lives. INDIA TODAY's Special Correspondent
Neeraj Mishra finds out why in
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