Two Britons charged with carrying 30 unlicensed AK47 guns

Both men were in good health and “as good as people can be when they are locked up”, she said.

Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for the ministry of interior, said the men had been caught with 30 AK-47s without documents.

He said: “Most of the weapons had their serial numbers erased. They were in a box which was wrapped in a blanket. The men were driving to an unknown location.” Mr Karzai issued a decree in August 2010 banning private security companies, apart from those at foreign embassies.

He argued the companies, which have both foreign and Afghan guards, were undermining the police and several Afghan-run firms were little better than militia.

Aid organisations and foreign businessmen objected, saying it would be impossible for them to continue to work in Afghanistan without such protection.

Mr Karzai backed off, but set a new deadline for March this year when their work is supposed to be taken over by a new force called the Afghan Public Protection Force (APPF).

Another British security contractor, Bill Shaw, spent four months in Afghan prison in 2010 after being sentenced for bribing two Afghan intelligence officers for the release of impounded armoured cars.

Mr Shaw, a former major in the Royal Military Police, maintained he believed he was paying a legitimate release fee and his conviction was eventually quashed for lack of evidence.

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