CRS – Afghanistan: Post-Taliban Governance, Security, and U.S. Policy, Kenneth Katzman. Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs. January 4, 2013
“The Administration view is that, no matter the U.S. and allied drawdown schedule, Afghan stability after the 2014 transition is at risk from weak and corrupt Afghan governance and insurgent safe haven in Pakistan. Among other efforts to promote effective and transparent Afghan governance, U.S. officials are pushing for substantial election reform to ensure that the next presidential election, scheduled for April 2014, will be not experience the fraud of the elections in 2009 and 2010. A potential contributor to stability would be a negotiated settlement to the conflict. Negotiations have proceeded sporadically since early 2010, but, by the end of 2012, began to evolve into a discussion of specific proposals to settle the conflict. Afghanistans minorities and womens groups worry about a potential settlement, fearing it might produce compromises with the Taliban that erode human rights and ethnic power-sharing.”
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