KABUL, May 12 (IslamOnline.net) - Hundreds of students of the military university and schools in Kabul demonstrated Sunday, May 11, in front of the Presidential palace in Kabul against President Hamid Karzai and U.S. policies in Afghanistan for the second day in a row.

Demonstrations, wherein students shouted saying "death to Karzai" and "death to the Americans" took place amidst large numbers of the international peace-keeping forces and Afghani police, according to the Afghani Shahadat newspaper.

Students of the military university demonstrated in protest to the decision of the transition government to close the university, in an implementation of a plan whereby the U.S. administration in Afghanistan seek to form a small Afghani army that includes 70,000 officers and soldiers only.

Such an army would not have air or artillery forces. The U.S. troops would train the army and consequently, the Americans would think of dispensing with the military educational specialized institutions in Afghanistan.

The paper added that the demonstrators had also called upon the government to provide job opportunities, improve economic situation and start the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

The source added that the student of Kabul University had also staged another demonstration against the transitional government, headed by Hamid Karzai.

Political analysts point to the tension that occurred lately between the U.S. forces and the northern alliance, particularly its military wing, headed by Marshal Mohammed Fahim, Minister of Defense in the transitional government.

Analysts do not rule out that such fragile relationships between the two parties will lead to an armed confrontation.

They say that the evidence of such fragile relationships is the involvement of the northern alliance's military wing in the demonstrations and that some demonstrators belong to that northern alliance.

It is well known that most Interior Ministry officials are members and supporters of the northern alliance's military wing and have been employed immediately after the downfall of Taliban movement by the end of 2001.