Despite Pressure from all sides, President Hamid Karzai still strongly resists to sign Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA). The US deadline has almost come to an end. Previously, Washington warned that if Kabul did not sign the BSA, it will consider zero military option after 2014.

According to senior advisors at Whitehouse, President Obama is willing to extend the deadline on Kabul-Washington security agreement. Obama is fully prepared to extend the US.-Afghanistan security deal in a concession to Afghan President Hamid Karzai aiming to approve BSA for legitimizing U.S. forces stay in the country beyond 2014. Meanwhile, Afghan President Hamid Karzai still emphasizes on his conditions. He has remained inflexible on demands that US should not carry out airstrikes and raids and search of Afghan houses, in addition, to helping broker peace talks with the Taliban militants. Many senior officials in Washington support full military withdrawal from the country.

Seemingly, US experience from Iraq is not so unpalatable. After it could not reach to agreement with Baghdad, it pulled out all its security forces having trust on Iraqi security forces to cope with any major security problem challenging the system. Now it has quite constructive relation with Baghdad and now this is Iraq which needs U.S. to be on its side to restore peace and stability. Early this month, Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari paid a visit from Kabul to discuss Kabul-Washington security deal and hinted that this agreement was to the best interest of the country.

Some of the analysts believe that President Karzai seems confident that US may not pull out of the country. President Karzai was the person who called Consultative Traditional Assembly to discuss controversial articles of BSA. The assembly unanimously approved its signature and asked President Karzai to sign urgently with US in order to ensure a stable future. But there has not been any final decision so far in that regard. Millions were spent for arrangements and different sorts of troubles were created as a result of closure of roads, transport and Kabul markets. He used to argue that he needs to ask the views of people for signing the agreement. But now people’s view has been revealed; therefore, efforts must be made to put that decision into practice. Such stance will terribly affect the creditability of Loya Jirga. Influential people may not take interest to participate in Loya Jirga because they may get the feeling their views are not valued.