adminKabul — An Afghan grand assembly of tribal chieftains and elders yesterday endorsed a major security pact with the United States and called on President Hamid Karzai to sign the deal immediately.Karzai said that he will sign a security agreement with the United States provided it cooperates in peace efforts and ends raids on Afghan homes.
Karzai was speaking at the end of a four-day meeting of elders and chieftains, which endorsed the pact allowing the US to maintain a military presence in Afghanistan till 2024.
He said he would sign it in return for US “co-operation” in Afghanistan’s efforts to make peace with Taliban insurgents.
“Given the current situation in, and Afghanistan’s need… the contents of this agreement as a whole is endorsed by the members of this Loya Jirga,” Fazul Karim Imaq, a deputy of the loya jirga said, reading a declaration reached at the end of the four-day grand meeting. — AFP.
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