KARZAI BANS PRIVATE SECURITY FIRMS

"Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has given private security firms working in Afghanistan four months to end their operations... saying they undermine government security forces... more than 50 private security companies, roughly half of them Afghan and the other half international, employ 30,000 to 40,000 armed personnel in Afghanistan... the conduct of private security personnel had caused "a lot of uproar among the Afghan population".
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2010/08/2010816104813959499.html