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Afghan Council To Consider U.S. Partnership Pact

by Quil Lawrence, NPR
November 16, 2011

Despite threatened attacks by the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has convened a grand assembly in the capital Kabul. Among other things being discussed, is the prospect of a strategic partnership with the United States that would keep American troops in the country after the 2014 drawdown.

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