UK troops 'to leave Afghanistan by 2014'

British troops are to pull out of Afghanistan by 2014 according to a secret document mapping out a blueprint for the withdrawal of coalition forces, it was reported today.

President Hamid Karzai is to announce a timetable for a “conditions-based and phased transition” at an international conference being held in Kabul next week which will map out the future of the troubled country, according to the leaked communique.