July 30, 2002	Tuesday	Jamadi-ul-Awwal 19,1423

KABUL, July 29: Afghan authorities arrested a foreigner driving a car packed with explosives after it was involved in an accident in the capital, Kabul TV said on Monday.

The seizure will alarm the government, which has endured a series of security lapses this year including the assassination of two ministers.

Kabul TV showed pictures of authorities removing blocks of explosives from the boot of the car and said some weapons were seized as well.

It did not say what nationality the foreigner was.

A spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the UN-mandated peackeepers charged with policing the capital, said they had heard of the incident but knew no details.

FEARFUL REFUGEES: Afghan refugees are refusing to leave camps on the Pakistan border described as “entirely unacceptable” by a top United Nations representative, because they fear for their safety in Afghanistan.

“You would not want your children or even your enemy’s children to live there,” Olara Otunnu, representing UN secretary general Kofi Annan, said of the refugee camps bordering Pakistan.

Tens of thousands of men, women and children eke out a tough existence in southeastern Afghanistan. The refugees live in huts of dried mud in temperatures of 40 degrees centigrade —Reuters/AFP