Karzai says Afghanistan doesn't need US troops

March 15, 2014 18:12

In his final address to Afghanistan's parliament today, President Hamid Karzai told the US its soldiers can leave at the end of the year because his military, which already protects 93 per cent of the country, was ready to take over entirely.

He reiterated his stance that he would not sign a pact with the United States that would provide for a residual force of US troops to remain behind after the final withdrawal, unless peace could first be established.

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