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In the meantime, Mr Karzai has repeatedly asked for ISAF to be expanded beyond Kabul.

The 100,000 remaining Isaf soldiers are due to be withdrawn by the end of 2014, after which Nato says its role in the country will essentially be a training one.

His successor is expected to be Isaf's last commander, who will oversee the withdrawal of most of the foreign troops in the country.

Top commanders, including the head of US forces in Afghanistan and Nato's International Stabilisation Assistance Force (Isaf), General David Petraeus, are said to be greatly distressed that a misleading account of the raid was initially provided to the British government, and concerned about the potential damage to the bilateral relationship.

I pay tribute on this sad day to their skill and their courage.' The Nimrod crash comes after a run of fatalities among British troops in Afghanistan, as well as being the third aircraft to be lost by Isaf recently.

The youth development side of ISAF's headquarters in Southampton is set to be geared up.

LEADERS of the NATO-led alliance known as ISAF that is fighting in Afghanistan might be expected to be glad to see the back of President Hamid Karzai.

"Yesterday a group of suspected insurgents, believed to be en route to attack a joint Afghan-ISAF unit, was engaged by an airborne weapons team resulting in a number of individuals killed and wounded," the American-led International Security Assistance Force, also known as ISAF, said in a statement released Monday.

The White House talks on Afghanistan come amid warnings from Nato's International Security and Assistance Force (Isaf) that it would be wrong for a change in western military tactics to be accompanied by an accelerated withdrawal.

In any event, such a restoration is highly unlikely, since any government ISAF leaves behind will probably be able to hold the big northern cities.So Pakistan's Afghan policy at times appears to be self-defeating.

ISAF was not able to avert last week's car bomb; but people in the Afghan capital have generally felt safer and less likely to be caught up in skirmishing between warlords than their compatriots in other cities.