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January 20, 2011The Atlantic Council's South Asia Center hosted a discussion with Abubakar Siddique on the future of negotiated settlement with the Taliban. Abubakar Siddique is a Senior Correspondent covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Drawing upon his own reporting and a wide range of contacts in the region, Mr. Siddique discussed the Taliban's likely agenda for future negotiations and outlined what a probable settlement would look like.
As the United States and NATO begin to evaluate their progress in Afghanistan in the short-term, other regional players have begun to consider the myriad scenarios that could play out in the long-term. A negotiated settlement with the Taliban is frequently mentioned as a solution for ending the conflict in Afghanistan, but questions remain about why attempts to reconcile with Taliban leaders and reintegrate insurgent fighters have so far delivered so little.
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Abubakar Siddique is a Senior Correspondent covering Afghanistan and Pakistan for Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty's Central Newsroom. He has spent the greater part of the past decade researching and writing about security, humanitarian, and cultural issues in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Pashtun heartland along the border region where he was born. In 2006, Mr. Siddique co-wrote a report with Barnett Rubin for the US Institute of Peace that was the first analytical work to address the importance of Pakistan's tribal areas in "Resolving the Pakistan-Afghanistan Stalemate" (Special Report No. 176). More recently, he wrote an article on the Pashtuns of Afghanistan and Pakistan for the National Defense University
's "Global Strategic Assessment 2009: America's Security Role in a Changing World" (ed. Patrick M. Cronin). Mr. Siddique speaks English, Pashto, Urdu and several other regional languages.
's "Global Strategic Assessment 2009: America's Security Role in a Changing World" (ed. Patrick M. Cronin). Mr. Siddique speaks English, Pashto, Urdu and several other regional languages.
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