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Afghan deports 47 Chinese women for allegedly selling alcohol, sex
 KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan deported 47 Chinese women after picking them up from guesthouses in the capital for their alleged involvement in prostitution and selling alcohol, an official said Thursday.
| Awww, hell! They threw the hookers out? |
The women were put on a plane from Kabul on Wednesday following their arrest about three weeks ago from 22 cathouses guesthouses, said Abdul Jabar Sabet, a legal adviser at the Interior Ministry. The cathouses guesthouses were shut down. Many of them did not have restaurants or kitchens and were obviously cathouses brothels, Sabet said. Kabul authorities have occasionally cracked down on the growing vice industry.
| And more often taken the bribe. |
Dozens of bars, restaurants and cathouses guesthouses have opened around Kabul since the fall of the Taleban in 2001, catering to the burgeoning UN-paid European expatriate community and wealthy Afghans. Some establishments appear to have doubled as cathouses brothels, prompting concern among ordinary Afghans and outbursts from religious conservatives that the post-Taleban influx of foreigners is undermining the countrys strict Islamic mores. Under the Afghan constitution, selling alcohol is banned, but it is available in shops and some restaurants, where it is supposed to be only served to foreigners.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-02-24 |
