VOTE FOR STATUS QUO: A Mujahideen soldier guards the door of the Governor's Palace in the strategic north-eastern Afghan town of Jalalabad on November 17 as rival tribal elders vote on the return of pre-Taliban governor Haji Qadeer to office. Leaders of the Opposition Northern Alliance, with which Qadeer is affiliated, have said they are keen to hold a grand assembly of tribal elders and Afghan notables to decide on a broad- based government acceptable to all of Afghanistan's ethnic groups. -- Reuters