The Loya Jirga voted in favor of a security deal with Washington that would allow US troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014 to train national security forces, a deputy speaker of the assembly told the BBC. The assembly is made up of 2,500 elders, tribal leaders and other influential figures in Afghanistan, RT reported.
"The loya jirga requests the president to sign the agreement before the end of 2013," Fazul Karim Imaq, a deputy of the loya jirga said.
