LONDON, Oct 13: The United States and its allies have no plans to launch a broadbased land invasion of Afghanistan and will not carry out “blanket bombing”, British Minister for International Development Clare Short said on Saturday.

“There isn’t going to be a mass land invasion,” she told BBC Radio 4.

“There will be some activity ... I don’t think the concept of swarms and swarms of troops all over Afghanistan is going to happen ... This is not just a classical war.”—AFP