(Outlook) France and Britain have deported 40 illegal Afghan immigrants. They arrived in Kabul on July 27 amid protests from European human rights organisations. However, France, which deported 25 Afghans, said it was satisfied that they would not face any risk upon returning home. The deportations came less than a month after interior ministers from Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Spain agreed to cooperate in fighting illegal immigration.
(Outlook is an independent daily published in English.)
Japan approves $5 million power project
(Cheragh) Japan has agreed to provide five million US dollars to reconstruct and expand power distribution networks in the western province of Herat. The 10 million dollar project will be co-financed by the Asian Development Bank and is expected to be complete by October 2006. After two decades of conflict, Afghanistan's basic infrastructure is in poor shape and being rebuilt with the support of the international community.
(Cheragh is an independent daily run by the Development and Democracy Association.)
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Street vendors protest in Kabul
(Arman-e-Milli) Around 200 kiosk owners and street vendors in Kabul protested on July 27, blocking busy roads in the city centre. The demonstrators were angry about plans by the municipality to move all of the kiosks located around the central park of Zarnegar to a place near the Kabul River. One of the protestors, Fardin, said: "I spent 20,000 afghani (400 US dollars) to make a stall, but traffic policemen threw it into the Kabul River. I want the traffic police to pay me back the damage I sustained."
(Arman-e-Milli is an independent daily run by a group of journalists.)
Kabul weapons caches discovered
(Anis) Kabul police have discovered munitions stores in the districts of Mosahi, Sorobi and Khak-e-Jabar. The interior ministry press office said the weapons caches included mortars, an RPG rocket launcher, machine guns and missiles. No one has yet been arrested.
(Anis is state-run daily published mostly in Dari.)
Taleban killed and captured
(Erada) Police in the southern province of Zabul killed three Taleban and captured two others, said provincial officials. Police chief General Abdul Saboor Allahyar said the clash took place in the Shah Joi district of Zabul when Taleban militants ambushed a police vehicle. Reports on the numbers injured in the clash ranged from one to five. A day earlier, government officials claimed to have killed 50 Taleban in the neighbouring province of Uruzgan in a joint operation conducted by the coalition forces and the Afghan National Army.
(Erada is an independent daily run by the Afghan Media Resource Center.)
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