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President Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan on a previously unannounced visit.

Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have signed a 10-year accord charting future relations between the countries.

The agreement outlines the US role in Afghanistan after 2014, when most NATO combat forces are due to pull out.

Barack Obama is also due to give a TV address to Americans back home. The visit comes on the first anniversary of Osama Bin Laden’s killing.

It was a year ago that US special forces carried out a raid on Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, and killed the leader of the al-Qaeda network.

President Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan on a previously unannounced visit

President Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan on a previously unannounced visit

After Barack Obama’s arrival, Hamid Karzai said a post-war agreement would seal an “equal partnership” between Afghanistan and the United States, reports say.

Barack Obama added the costs of war had been great for both nations, adding he looked forward to “a future of peace”.

He acknowledged there would be difficult days ahead for Afghanistan, but said the Afghan people were taking control of their own future.

The US is to designate Afghanistan as a major non-NATO ally, US officials are quoted as saying by Reuters news agency.

Barack Obama will not make specific decisions on further reductions of US forces in Afghanistan until the autumn of 2012, the officials added.

The president is due to make his TV address from Bagram air base at 23:30 GMT.

The agreement is a first, symbolic step towards setting out a long-term relationship.

It is designed to reassure the people of Afghanistan that they are not about to be abandoned when NATO ends its operations there in 18 months.

It is also meant to send a signal to the Taliban that it cannot simply expect to take over again when the Americans leave, our correspondent adds.

This is President Barack Obama’s third trip to Afghanistan since taking office.

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Pakistani authorities charged Osama Bin Laden’s three widows with illegally entering the country.

According to Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik, the women, reported to be two Saudis and a Yemeni, had been charged but did not say when the hearing took place.

The three women and about 10 children were taken into custody last May when US commandos raided their compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.

The women had been living in the compound in Abbottabad that Navy Seals attacked, killing Osama Bin Laden.

Rehman Malik told reporters in Islamabad that “only the adults had been charged” and the children were free to return to their native countries if their mothers agreed.

Legal experts say the maximum term the women could get is five years.

Pakistani authorities charged Osama Bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering the country

Pakistani authorities charged Osama Bin Laden's three widows with illegally entering the country

It is not clear if these three women are Osama Bin Laden’s only widows – it has been reported that he had up to six wives.

In June 2011, a Pakistani commission was charged with investigating how the al-Qaeda leader had managed to stay in Pakistan undetected.

The commission said his wives should not be allowed to leave the country until they had been interviewed.

Despite having a $25 milliom bounty on his head for his role in organizing the 9/11 attacks on the US, Osama Bin Laden managed to live in the Abbottabad compound with his wives and children for nearly five years.

 

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