DUSHANBE: Tajik President Emomali Rakhmonov, right, Russian President Vladimir Putin, centre, and deposed president of Afghanistan Burhanuddin Rabbani, left, pose during their meeting in the Tajik capital Dushanbe, early on Oct. 22, 2001. Putin arrived in the Tajik capital before dawn on Monday to discuss the Afghanistan situation and political future with his Tajik counterpart and Afghanistan's opposition leader.— AP/PTI