Afghan Taliban urges Karzai to reject US security deal

The Taliban has urged Afghan President Hamid Karzai to reject US security deal.

The Taliban urged Karzai to delay in signing a long-term security deal with the United States into outright rejection.

The move from the terror outfit is an unusually polite statement directed at a leader the insurgents have repeatedly denounced as a US puppet, Guardian reports.

According to the report, last month Karzai called a national assembly to vote on the bilateral security agreement (BSA) and then ignored the advice of some top advisors that he should sign the deal as soon as possible.

The deal would allow US forces to stay in Afghanistan after 2014, when the current combat mission ends, and also allow billions of dollars a year in funding for the Afghan police and military, the report said.

The Taliban on Monday offered Karzai support for his position, but also demanded that he abandon all conditions and reject the pact unilaterally.

Karzai has said he will not sign the BSA until after a presidential election to choose his successor next year.

Recently, he listed a range of new demands that included an immediate halt of all raids on foreign homes and the release of all Afghan prisoners held at Guantanamo day.

If the deal is not signed, all foreign soldiers will leave when the current combat mission ends in 2014.

It also means that most of the promised eight billion dollars a year in military and development aid is likely to vanish, the report added.