A planned deal to let US forces stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to fight Al Qaeda remnants is under threat because of disagreement over the Americans' right to conduct military operations, Kabul says. President Hamid Karzai is now directly leading the talks after they ground to a halt despite US pressure to complete the security agreement by the end of this month, said Karzai's spokesman Aimal Faizi. The US plans to pull out the bulk of its 57,000 troops in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but it has tentative plans to retain some bases and a smaller force of around 10,000 after that. Read details in Daily Dawn
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