LANDI KOTAL (Khyber Agency) July 6: Security guards arrested two Afghan women at the Torkhum border post on Wednesday and recovered eight Kalashnikovs from their possession. Burqa-clad Lal Mina and Bibi Hawa were intercepted by woman guards after they had crossed the border. Upon search, the guards recovered from their possession eight Kalashnikovs and 48 rounds, wrapped around their bodies.

The automatic weapons had been broken into pieces to avoid detection by border guards.

The political authorities took the women into custody with the confiscated arms, and kept them in a lock-up with male prisoners as there is no separate arrangement for detention of women in the area.—Correspondent