An Afghan protestor holds a banner during a protest against U.S. military bases in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Oct. 24, 2011. Around four hundred Afghans staged a peaceful demonstration in Kabul on Monday and expressed their opposition to the possible establishment of U.S. military bases in Afghanistan. (Xinhua/Ahmad Massoud)

 
KABUL, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) -- Around four hundred Afghans staged a peaceful demonstration in Kabul on Monday and expressed their opposition to the possible establishment of U.S. military bases in the post-Taliban Afghanistan.

With many of them from seminaries, the demonstrators carrying banners inscribed with slogans "Death to America" shouted, "we do not want foreign troops` permanent bases in Afghanistan."

The protestors also said that the presence of foreign troops in Afghanistan over the past 10 years had not changed the living condition of the ordinary people.

Prominent among those attended the demonstration, were a former presidential candidate Ahmad Shah Ahmadzai and a former parliamentarian Hajji Farid.

Afghan government and the U.S. administration have been discussing signing a strategic partnership, which if inked, according to some Afghan analysts would enable Washington to have military bases in Afghanistan.

An Afghan protestor shouts slogans during a protest against U.S. military bases in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Oct. 24, 2011. (Xinhua/Ahmad Massoud)