Afghan president announces second troop transition

[Turborama]

Source: BBC

November 27 2011 | Last updated at 15:50 GMT

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has named the provinces, cities and districts that will be handed over by Nato to Afghan control.

This second wave of transition means that half of Afghanistan is due to be controlled by its own forces.

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Mr Karzai's latest announcement is part of a process that should see the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) leaving Afghanistan by the end of 2014.

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Among the cities named is Jalalabad in the east and the volatile Ghazni, where only last month a mother and daughter were stoned and then shot by the Taliban just a few hundred metres from the local governor's office, our correspondent adds.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-15911182

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Full list of areas to be handed over:

Provinces: Nimroz, Day Kundi, Samangan, Takhar and Balkh; Parwan, except Shinwari and Siahgerd districts; and Sar-e-Pul, except Sayyad district; Herat province, except for Shindand, Obe and Chishti Sharif districts.

Cities: Ghazni, provincial capital of Ghazni province; Jalalabad, provincial capital of Nangarhar, plus Beshud, Kama, Kuzhunar and Surkh Rod districts; Maidan Shah, provincial capital of Wardak province, plus Jalrez district and the Beshud area; Chaghcharan, capital of Ghor province; Shibirghan, capital of Jawzjan province.

Districts: Badghis districts of Ab Kamari and Qalay-e-Naw, which includes the provincial capital; Nadi Ali, Nawa and Marjah districts of Helmand; Qarghayee district of Laghman; Surobi district of Kabul; Shahri, Buzurg, Argo, Yaftal-e-Sufla, Faizabad, Arghanj Khwah, Baharak, Tashkan and Kishim, all in Badakhshan province.