KABUL, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Afghan lawmakers have accepted President Hamid Karzai's offer to inaugurate parliament next week, they said late on Saturday, ending a standoff that had thrown the country into political turmoil.
Karzai has backed down from a decision to delay for one month an inauguration originally scheduled for Jan 23. Lawmakers furious with that decision had threatened to meet at parliament on Sunday, regardless of whether the president attended.
"We have agreed on Karzai's request to open parliament on Wednesday and refrain from going to parliament tomorrow," said Sediq Ahmad Usmani, a representative from Parwan province. (Reporting by Hamid Shalizi, writing by Emma Graham-Harrison, editing by Matt Robinson)
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