KHWAJA-BAHAUDDIN: Taliban fighters, prisoners of war, sit in a prison in Khwaja-Bahauddin, anti-Taliban northern stronghold in the Takhar province, Northern Afghanistan, on Oct. 17, 2001. In the north, the Afghan opposition claimed it was 3 miles from the key city of Mazar-e-Sharif and was shelling its outskirts, said Abdul Vadud, Northern Alliance military attache in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. —AP/PTI