Planning for post-2014 mission continues: Hagel --- WASHINGTON (Pajhwok): The Obama administration continues to plan a post-2014 mission in Afghanistan, despite an impasse over the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA), US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Friday. -- “We will continue to plan and work with our NATO and ISAF commanders for a post-2014 mission. You know that we've identified that as train, assist, advise and counterterrorism,” Hagel told Pentagon reporters. -- He would be travelling to Brussels in two or three weeks, with the post-2014 presence on the agenda, the secretary said, exuding confidence the BSA would be signed soon, The US continues to encourage Karzai to ink the deal. -- “The US president has stated very clearly -- and we are proceeding on this -- first, the combat mission of our role in Afghanistan has changed. That lead combat mission has been turned over to the Afghans,” he said. -- “Again, a post-2014 presence of the United States and our ISAF partners will be about continuing to train, assist and advise -- we do that all over the world with partners and allies -- as well as continue our counterterrorism efforts, which I think everyone supports, it's clearly in our interest,” he argued. -- Hagel added he Afghan army had performed pretty well in the last two years, but it was still in the institution-building process. Twelve years ago, there were not any institutions at all in Afghanistan, he recalled. -- The US was facilitating a continuation of investing and helping the Afghans invest in their own future, in their own institutions, to give them the capability.