The Pentagon has issued new operational guidelines in Afghanistan rejecting President Hamid Karzai’s call for an end to nighttime raids. The Wall Street Journal reports the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, has issued a directive the U.S. claims will expand protections for civilians targeted in the raids. But the move rejects calls from Karzai and top Afghan officials for the raids to stop. A senior military official in Afghanistan also called the new rules “mostly administrative [with] no impact on operations.”