Qanuni and jaswat singh

Afghanistan's new Interior Minister Younus Qanooni, left, meets with Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh in New Delhi, India, Friday, Dec. 7, 2001. Qanooni, the chief delegate of the northern alliance at the Bonn talks, flew in from Germany on Friday to India _ a longtime supporter of the northern alliance. This is the first minister-level contact between the Indian government and the new Afghan administration.. (AP Photo/Ajit Kumar)

Older man

Elderly Afghan men wait for humanitarian aid to be distributed in central Kabul December 7, 2001. The Taliban's rule over its last bastion of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan came to an end with their forces laying down arms to a joint commission of tribal elders, the Afghan Islamic Press (AIP) said. (Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

Afghan Women in Brussels

Afghan women react to speakers during the Afghan Women's Summit for Democracy held at the European Parliament building in Brussels, Thursday, Dec. 6, 2001. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier

sima wali

Sima Wali, left, primary Afghan organizer of the Afghan Women's Summit for Democracy held at the European Parliament building in Brussels, Thursday Dec. 6, 2001, speaks at the end of the summit. At right is an Afghan woman who wished to remain anonymous. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier)

 


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