An Afghan delegate speaks to the committee members on the third day of the loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan delegate speaks to the committee members on the third day of the loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan delegate, Mahmood Khan Sulaiman Khial, left, gestures as he speaks with a colleague Gul Badshah Majidi on the third day of loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan woman delegate, center, speaks for her committee members on the third day of loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
An Afghan delegate listens to a speech from his committee chairman, unseen, on the third day of the loya jirga or grand council in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke Wednesday on the opening day of the meeting where the elders are discussing negotiations under way for a U.S.-Afghan agreement to govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
Afghan men offer prayers outside the shrine of Shah-E-Doshamshera, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? A majority of delegates at a national assembly are endorsing a call by Afghanistan's president for a long-term security pact with the United States.
By midday Saturday, more than two-thirds of the delegates say they will support Hamid Karzai's call for a security pact, but only if the United States accepts some conditions.
The pact will govern the presence of U.S. troops after 2014, when most international forces are to have left or moved into support roles.
The conditions include an end to nighttime kill-and-capture raids by foreign troops, which NATO says is the most effective weapon so far against the insurgency.
The meeting's findings are not binding, but they are likely to bolster Karzai's negotiating position. More than 2,000 people are attending.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ? Afghan and NATO authorities say two Afghan policemen have died in a friendly fire incident outside the city of Ghazni in eastern Afghanistan.
Ghazni provincial governor Musa Akbar Zada says two other policemen were wounded in the incident at a checkpoint Friday.
He says NATO forces were conducting an operation that was not coordinated with Afghan forces. He says that when the coalition forces ignored Afghan police orders to stop, shots were fired and the policemen were in killed in a gunbattle.
The U.S.-led military coalition says a joint Afghan and NATO force called for air support and tried several times to identify themselves as friendly forces.
When they were unable to stop the threat, they engaged in self-defense, killing the two.
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