Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, Mr K. Jana Krishnamurthy, President of the BJP, and the Home Minister, Mr L.K. Advani, at the BJP’s National Executive meeting at Amritsar on Friday. — Tribune photo Karam Singh

BJP to stick with Shiromani Akali Dal
Party’s national executive discusses agro-policy
Amritsar, November 2
Focusing on the forthcoming Assembly elections in the state, the national executive of the BJP today not only announced its continuation of the alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal but also held serious discussions on agricultural issues.

• Advani takes a back seat

Arrangements go haywire
Amritsar, November 2
At its first-ever executive committee meeting in this holy city, the arrangements made by the BJP literally went for a six.

• Leaders feel the heat

• Mrs Khalra held

Fifteen Taliban camps north of Kabul "have been destroyed by US bombing." (28k, 56k) The Taliban ambassador to Pakistan has said that Afghanistan's ruling militia had detained several US citizens. (28k, 56k)

US warplanes bomb Taliban front lines
Islamabad, November 2
In one of the fiercest bombing runs till date, the USA today targeted Taliban front lines, north of Kabul, hitting a militia headquarters using B-52 bombers even as a fresh batch of heavily-armed Pakistani tribesmen crossed into Afghanistan to support militia in the war which Washington said was still in the “very, very early stage”.

• Taliban capture Pashtun leader

• Protests fade away in Pakistan

• No pilot on US plane shot down: Taliban