Afghanistan Debates It's Security Agreement With The U.S.

Afghan Grand Council Debates Deal With US -- AL Jazeera

Proposed US-Afghan security pact needs to be ratified by loya jirga delegates before Afghan president can approve it.

Kabul - Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has inaugurated a Kabul gathering of thousands of Afghans that will decide the role of US forces beyond the 2014 international troop withdrawal.

The loya jirga, or grand council, which convened on Thursday, includes more than 2,500 Afghan men and women from around the country, who came together to discuss a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) between Afghanistan and the US.

The convening of the jirga, a traditional Afghan institution in place for centuries, followed an announcement by the US that it had reached a deal with the Kabul government on the security pact.

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