US gets Afghan govt’s assurances

KABUL: US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel on Saturday said he had received assurances during a visit to Kabul that a long-delayed deal allowing US troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014 would be signed “in a timely manner”.




The Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) has been at the centre of a public dispute between the allies, with the US increasingly frustrated by President Hamid Karzai’s negotiating tactics over the deal.After meetings in the Afghan capital, Mr Hagel told reporters that Defence Minister Bismillah Khan Mohammadi “assured me the BSA would be signed in a timely manner”.

Mr Hagel arrived in Kabul after a visit to Bahrain, while Mr Karzai is due to visit Tehran on Sunday.

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