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Article: CAMOUFLAGE MAHAL; Shrine covered as India-Pakistan war looms.(News)

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December 30, 2001
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INDIA yesterday began work to camouflage the famous Taj Mahal for fear of Pakistani air strikes.

The move came as war loomed closer for the neighbouring nuclear rivals and 18 Indian soldiers were killed laying anti-tank mines in Rajasthan.

An army of tailors were yesterday frantically stitching a giant cloth to drape over the Taj Mahal monument to love in the northern city of Agra.

Tailors bent over clattering sewing machines stitching ...

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