BSA needs to be signed promptly: Hagel --- WASHINGTON (PAN): US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Thursday insisted that the bilateral security agreement with Afghanistan needed to be signed promptly, as the two sides clung to their positions. -- "What role America and its allies continue to play in Afghanistan to help the people of that country after 2014 must be clearly defined, and it must be defined very soon,” Hagel told reporters at a Pentagon news conference. -- The BSA between Afghanistan and the United States must be signed promptly in order for the Americans and their allies to plan and preserve options for a post-2014 presence, the defense secretary argued. - More, Pajhwok, ast: http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2013/12/20/bsa-needs-be-signed-promptly-hagel