By way of Hamid Shalizi and Jessica Donati KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai told his countrymen on Thursday a critical safety p.c. with the United States should now not come into effect until after next 12 months’s election and conceded there used to be little trust between the 2 countries. About 2,500 tribal elders and political leaders from throughout Afghanistan gathered in the capital, Kabul, for a Loya Jirga, or grand council, to debate whether or not to permit U.S. troops to remain after the 2014 drawdown of foreign forces. Without an accord on the so-referred to as Bilateral Security Settlement (BSA), the United States says it will probably pull out all its troops on the finish of 2014 and leave Afghan forces to combat the Taliban insurgency on their own. In a commentary sure to irritate the US, which is eager to clinch the deal as quickly as that you can imagine, Karzai advised the meeting any settlement on the standing of U.S. forces must wait except after a presidential election in April.