Hamid Karzai to travel to Qatar to discuss peace with Taliban The announcement comes several weeks after Mr Karzai delivered a fiery speech during the first visit to Afghanistan by Chuck Hagel, the US defence secretary, in which he accused Washington of holding peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar without him. Mr Karzai also accused the Taliban of colluding with America to keep foreign troops in the country, marking a fresh low point in the relationship between the Afghan president and his most powerful backer. Mr Mosazai confirmed the agreement reached on the transfer of detainees held at the military detention facility at Bagram in Parwan province north of Kabul. The issue of detainees at Bagram had become another stress point in Mr Karzai's relations with Washington. A ceremony formally transferring the last prisoners to Afghan custody collapsed two weeks ago after Mr Karzai rejected part of the deal. American forces control an area of the prison adjacent to the Bagram military complex, which holds several dozen Taliban fighters considered by the United States to pose the most severe threat. Washington is concerned the Afghans may release some of these men when control of the prison is handed over. Under the terms of agreement, all Afghans detained by forces of the US-led coalition would now have to be handed over to Afghan control within 96 hours of capture, Mr Mosazai said. Any decision to release them after that would be made only by the Afghan government. The United States last year agreed to hand over responsibility for most of the more than 3,000 detainees at the prison to Afghanistan and held a transfer ceremony in September.