KABUL - The head of the parliamentary defense committee on Saturday said that he does not believe the US will transfer all control of Bagram prison and its detainees to the Afghan government.

With two days until the transfer deadline, after President Hamid Karzai granted an extra week to the US last Monday, lawmaker Humayun Humayun said he does not believe the additional time will deliver all Karzai's demands.

"I think that US will not surrender the dangerous prisoners to Afghanistan because the US fears that Afghanistan will release them, so the US will keep those prisoners," Humayun told TOLOnews.

After last year's official handover in September of about 3000 prisoners, the US military is understood to have retained control of around 600 prisoners it deemed dangerous.

More than six months have passed without the Kabul and Washington coming to an agreement on the matter.

However, the presidential office was more positive saying that Karzai's meetings with the top US Commander in Afghanistan Gen Joseph Dunford were fruitful.

"In the meeting, the US side stressed its commitment to handing over Bagram prison to the Afghan Government and all the legal and technical problems have been addressed so the transition will happen soon," the presidential deputy spokesman Mohammad Fayiq Wahidi told TOLOnews in a phone interview.

Afghan military analyst Noor ul Haq Olomi said Karzai's insistence on the innocence of some of Bagram's prisoners impacted negotiations with the Americans.

"The Afghan government's contradictory position has negatively affected the [US] surrender of the prisoners [to Afghan control]," he told TOLOnews. "The president repeatedly said that these prisoners are innocent and will be released, so the US is concerned about this point."

It is said that the roughly 3000 prisoners handed over in September have links to the Taliban and Al Qaida. However a further 600 prisoners including 50 foreigners remain under US guard. (Tolo News)