PESHAWAR, Jan 27: A gathering of Afghan elders termed the Karzai-led government a failure and called for the formation of a broad-based government in Kabul to ensure peace in the country.

At a day-long seminar, organized by different Afghan groups at the local press club on Monday, speakers demanded of the United Nations to send more peacekeepers to the country and take steps to stop foreign interference.

Through a unanimous resolution, they appealed to the UN and the donor countries to fulfil their commitments, made at the Tokyo Conference, of providing economic support. The resolution urged the Afghan people to continue their struggle for holding free and fair elections in the country.

The chief of the Revolutionary Association of Women of Afghanistan, Saima Karim, said that despite two decades of struggle the miseries of the Afghans had not ended.

She was of the view that without disarming the warlords the restoration of peace and prosperity to the country was not possible. She suggested that the warlords should be tried by a judicial commission.

Afghan Millat Party president Shamsul Huda Shams said that President Karzai had failed to protect the rights of the Pakhtoons.

He demanded resignation of the transitional government and asked Mr Karzai to hand over the power to an independent, impartial and broad-based authority, which should form a national army, conduct country-wide census, form constitution and make arrangement for holding the Loya Jirga.