(Anis) Residents of the Bagram district, some 50 kilometers north of Kabul, staged a protest after coalition forces raided a house there on July 25. The state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported that dozens of locals gathered in the district bazaar on July 26, demanding that troops stationed at the Bagram airbase be more considerate in their dealings with the local population. The locals said the Americans were acting on unreliable information and had bothered residents. Abdul Jabar Taqwa, the governor of Parwan province, said an agreement between the coalition and the local government that anti-terror operations in the area be conducted in the presence of area representatives wasn't followed.
(Anis is a state-run daily published mostly in Dari.)
Afghan-Korean school opens
(Islah) Mohammad Karim Khalili, second Afghan vice-president, has inaugurated an Afghan-Korean education centre in Afshar, northwest of Kabul. The nine million US dollar project was funded by South Korea and has six departments including masonry, tailoring, electricity, computers, welding and car repair. Three hundred and sixty students are expected to graduate each year.
(Islah is a state-run daily published mostly in Dari.)
Taleban recruits teens
(Cheragh) A US commander said the Taleban have responded to increased military pressure by recruiting young boys. General Jason Kamya, the chief of operations for the US-led coalition forces, said that more than 500 militants have been killed in battles over the last five months. He said the Taleban had begun forcing people to send one of their sons, some as young as 14, to fight to fill their decimated ranks. Kamya added that the militants would increase their activities as the country moves closer to parliamentary elections.
(Cheragh is an independent daily run by the Development and Democracy Association.)
50 Taleban killed
(Erada) Fifty militants were killed and 45 captured when the Afghan National Army and the US-led coalition forces attacked a Taleban base in the Deh Rawod district of the southern province of Urozgan. According to Jan Mohammad Khan, governor of Urozgan, the base was used by reserve units needed to reinforce the insurgency in the three southern provinces of Zabul, Kandahar and Urozgan. Two Afghan soldiers and two Americans were also killed in the operation, said Khan.
(Erada is an independent daily run by the Afghan Media Resource Center.)
Candidate killed in Paktika
(Arman-e-Milli) A parliamentary candidate has been killed in the southeastern province of Paktika. The man was on his way from the Wazikhwa district to Sharana City, capital of the province, when his car was blown up in a remote-controlled bomb, said provincial police chief Malik Khan. The Taleban's self-proclaimed spokesman, Latifullah Hakimi, claimed responsibility for the attack.
(Arman-e-Milli is an independent daily run by a group of journalists.)
Kabul downplays Musharraf's remarks
(Outlook) A spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai on July 26 played down remarks by Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf who asked Kabul to avoid blaming Islamabad for everything that went wrong in Afghanistan. Asked to comment on the statement made by Musharraf in Lahore, spokesman Karim Rahimi said time would prove who was right.
(Outlook is an independent daily published in English.)
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