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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Ezatullah Safi, the deputy director of Karzai’s media information center, said the intense pressure comes as the president demands an end to night-time raids by US troops in Afghanistan and a timeline for Afghans to assume control over the US-run detention centers.
There are increasing doubts on whether Washington and Kabul will be able to reach a long-term Strategic Partnership Agreement as US-Afghanistan relations have been heavily strained in recent weeks.
A senior Afghan government official, however, said on condition of anonymity that the US believes “Afghanistan does not have the ability or the international standards to run the prison and also insists that night raids can’t be stopped overnight as it’s a key tool against the insurgents.”
The recent burning of copies of the holy Qur’an by US forces has further complicated the situation. It has triggered Afghan anger and demands for greater guarantees from the US, including the hand-over of US-run prisons.
“There have been a couple of sticking points. We are continuing to try to work through those and I don’t have anything to report at this time with regard to completing the document or settling those two issues,” State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told reporters.
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