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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 Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Karzai backs down in dispute with Afghan lawmakers By DEB RIECHMANN,Associated Press - Sunday, January 23 Send IM Story Print KABUL, Afghanistan – Afghan President Hamid Karzai backed down Saturday in a standoff with lawmakers that had threatened to spark a constitutional crisis, agreeing to scrap a one-month delay in convening the new parliament, two legislators said. Karzai had ordered the opening session postponed to allow more time for a special tribunal to investigate allegations of fraud in September's parliamentary election. That set off an outcry among lawmakers and drew heavy pressure from the United States, the U.N. and other world powers for Karzai to resolve the dispute and allow lawmakers to get to work. After hours of discussions at the presidential palace, Karzai agreed to open the legislature on Wednesday, according to two of the lawmakers involved, Shukria Barakzai of Kabul and Gul Pacha Majidi of Ghazni province. In return, Karzai asked the parliamentarians to agree that any criminal case against a lawmaker can go forward, said Mirwais Yasini, a representative from eastern Nangarhar province who was deputy speaker of the lower house of parliament in the last session. The legislators agreed to this Saturday evening and have drafted a letter to send to the president on Sunday, Yasini said. Legislators had threatened to defy the president's ordered delay and start the session on their own on Sunday, as originally scheduled. Under Afghan law, the president must attend to inaugurate the legislature at its opening session. "He is coming and Wednesday will be the opening," Barakzai told The Associated Press at a Kabul hotel where many lawmakers were gathered late Saturday. Some politicians, however, were not happy with the outcome, signaling that the political tension could drag on. Daoud Sultanzoy, a former parliamentarian who lost his seat in chaotic election in Ghazni province, said Karzai bowed to pressure from the international community to support the appearance of a fair vote rather than waiting for the courts to make a decision. "The United States and the European Union and everyone are ganging up on the people of Afghanistan," Sultanzoy said. "It's a very tragic situation that the president is deciding to do this under international pressure." Sultanzoy and other losing parliamentarians planned a demonstration in Kabul for Sunday. He said he expected more demonstrations to follow nationwide. He said that Afghans would not be able to trust in their government after this decision. "Karzai is hitting the last nails in the coffin of this government," Sultanzoy said. The parliament was set to start work Sunday after an earlier investigation by an anti-fraud watchdog into the charges of irregularities. That group discarded 1.3 million ballots _ nearly a quarter of the total _ and disqualified 19 winning candidates before final results were issued on Nov. 24. But Afghanistan's attorney general concluded that investigation had not been thorough enough. The attorney general launched a new round of inquiries, which led the Supreme Court to create the special tribunal in late December. Hundreds of losing candidates say Karzai has told them that he believes they were wronged and that he will do everything to support further investigations. While he has not said so publicly, it is generally believed that Karzai is unhappy with the election results and thinks fraud reduced voter turnout among his fellow ethnic Pashtuns. It is unclear if the tribunal _ deemed unconstitutional by both the international community and the electoral bodies that organized and oversaw the election _ has the power to alter the result of any races. Afghan electoral law names the fraud investigation panel as the ultimate arbiter of such issues and the Independent Election Commission as the body to declare final results. In a signal to Karzai that the international community was standing behind the lawmakers, the United Nations expressed its "deep concern and surprise" at the president's order for a delay. In a statement released Friday night, the U.N., the European Union, the United States, Canada and other nations said they continued to support a "reasonable, enduring and peaceful resolution to this issue" so that the Afghan parliament can convene as soon as possible. More than 200 of the 249 newly elected parliamentarians had lunch at the palace and heard speeches by Karzai and key members of parliament during Saturday's discussions. Also Saturday, two NATO service members were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said. No other details were released about the deaths, which bring to 25 the number of coalition troops killed so far this month. Earlier Saturday, three suicide attackers detonated their explosives vests during a gunbattle with Afghan and coalition forces that left 10 militants and one civilian dead in Khost province of eastern Afghanistan. Provincial police chief Abdul Hakim Ishaqzia said the battle, which lasted several hours early Saturday morning, began after insurgents fired a rocket toward a group of Afghan and NATO forces who were preparing to go on patrol in the Sabari district. The joint force killed 10 militants and arrested 12 others, he said. "There were no casualties among the security forces, but one civilian was killed and two other civilians, including one woman and a child, were wounded as a result of the suicide attacks," he said. Also in the east, mortar rounds and grenades fired by insurgents landed in a village in Ghazni province, killing two Afghan children and causing a pregnant Afghan woman to lose her child, NATO said. The insurgents were targeting Afghan and coalition forces, but they missed and hit villagers in Muqur district. In southern Afghanistan, two Afghan policemen were killed in separate incidents in Nahr Sarraj district of Helmand province. Deputy provincial police chief Kamaluddin Khan said one died and nine other policemen were injured when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb and the other policeman was killed in a battle with insurgents. ___ Associated Press writers Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez in Kabul and Mirwais Khan in Kandahar contributed to this report. 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