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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Karzai, MPs 'strike Afghan parliament opening deal' AFP - 33 minutes ago Send IM Story Print KABUL (AFP) - – President Hamid Karzai has reached a deal with rebel Afghan lawmakers which looks set to avert a possible constitutional crisis over his plan to delay opening the new parliament, MPs said Saturday. Karzai has apparently agreed to inaugurate parliament on Wednesday -- despite saying this week he was putting the move on hold for a month -- avoiding a confrontation with lawmakers threatening to start work without him. In return, the MPs are expected to agree to respect the rulings of a Supreme Court special tribunal, set up to consider cases of fraud in the September elections. The deal came a day after the United States and the United Nations criticised the plan to delay the opening of parliament and called for it to convene as soon as possible, raising the pressure on Karzai. Lawmaker Gul Pacha Majidi told AFP that a committee of 35 MPs had reached an outline agreement with Karzai after hours of talks in Kabul. "The agreement is that the president will inaugurate parliament Wednesday and, in return, the winning candidates will respect and accept the decisions taken by the special tribunal," he said. He added that although all of the winning candidates still had to formally agree to back the deal, a large number have agreed to it and he thought it was likely an official resolution would be made public on Sunday. Another lawmaker, Shukoria Barekzai, added that a deal was "confirmed." "The Supreme Court will engage with us to solve the crisis," she said. Karzai's office was not immediately available for comment. The angry parliamentarians were threatening to inaugurate parliament without Karzai on Sunday, the date originally scheduled for the opening, in open defiance of his authority. The disagreement between the lawmakers and Karzai centres on the results of September's fraud-hit parliamentary elections, which under-represented the Pashtuns, Karzai's traditional power base. Although they make up around 42 percent of all Afghans, it is thought that only 32 percent of the new parliamentary intake is from the Pashtuns, historically Afghanistan's most powerful group. Karzai's office announced on Wednesday it was delaying the inauguration of parliament for a month from the original date of Sunday. That came after the head of a special tribunal of the Supreme Court which is ruling on electoral fraud cases called for a delay of at least four weeks, warning that some results could be thrown out. But many winning candidates have questioned the authority of the special tribunal, saying it is unconstitutional. In a statement on Friday the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan expressed "deep concern and surprise" at Karzai's call to delay inaugurating the parliament and, along with Washington, urged a swift resolution to the impasse. International troops fighting the Pashtun-dominated Taliban are due to start limited withdrawals in July ahead of Afghan forces assuming control of security in 2014. After the original parliamentary poll in September, electoral authorities disqualified 24 early winners, including allies of the president, and threw out around a quarter of the five million votes cast. The attorney general's office later called for the results to be annulled, saying the vote was marred by massive fraud. Karzai has yet to endorse the outcome. Recommend Send IM Story Print Related Articles Super-sub Yoon sweeps S. 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