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March 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The two sides are divided over night raids carried out by the US-led foreign troops across Afghanistan.
Kabul has been calling on Washington for an end to the operations and a timetable to hand over control of prisons run by US forces, including the Bagram airbase, to Afghan authorities.
An Afghan Foreign Ministry official has said the delay in the talks will endanger the signing of the controversial strategic partnership agreement.
He noted that despite pressure from Kabul to take control of the Bagram prison, US officials believe that the Afghan authorities lack the capability to run the detention center.
The calls for an end to overnight attacks on Afghans’ houses have fallen on deaf ears in Washington, where officials insist the foreign forces cannot stop night operations and that the raids remain the best way to clampd own on armed militants in the war-weary country, he added.
The burning of copies of the Holy Qur’an by US forces in the Bagram military base last month has further complicated the situation and deepened the differences between Afghan and US officials.
The sacrilegious move sparked uproar across the Muslim world and further intensified anti-US sentiments among Afghan officials and people, who demand an immediate withdrawal of the US-led foreign forces from their country.
On Monday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the US ambassador to the country were scheduled to hold a meeting, but no details on the talks have yet been revealed.
Meanwhile, Gavin Sundwall, a spokesman for the United States Embassy in Kabul, has ruled out that the Afghan-US strategic partnership agreement might ever see the light.
Karzai is said to be under great pressure to sign the strategic deal, without which the US will not be able to remain in Afghanistan beyond 2014.
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