Hamid Karzai asks Barack Obama not to order steep withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan this year

Mr Karzai’s cabinet ministers and security aides are deeply concerned by reports that the United States will pull out tens of thousands of troops of its 100,000 troops in the country, ahead of the US presidential election in autumn 2012 -- Hamid Karzai asks Barack Obama not to order steep withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan this year