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The fact that Washington's force-loaded selectively waged war on terrorism may end up further promoting a dangerously polarised and fragmented global community cannot be ruled out.

Washington's Afghanistan challenge is far from over. In fact its vacillation over key issues, like the expansion of the ISAF and its own force presence in Afghanistan, raise the question over the nature and sincerity of its commitment to the security and reconstruction of Afghanistan.

Yesterday's supporters are today's critics. Accusation has gradually replaced applause. As mainstream America led by the establishment mourns its dead and yet again sermonises about its crusade against "terrorists", many commentators question the conduct of this "crusade". Both within and outside the U.S.

In his August 21 press conference General Pervez Musharraf made it amply clear that he was not interested in the formalities of law or the Constitution.

Powell, in helping Bush to see the obvious negative fall-out a force-based knock-out approach, must get credit for creating this space for diplomacy.

The visit of a four-member delegation from the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR) last week who aired their concern over Afghan's Taliban government, while at the same time admitting they knew very little about the Taliban.

The significance for Pakistan in the framing and, to some extent, the goal of Colin Powell's trip to the subcontinent is that it is a response to many weeks of incessant Indian complaining.