so with those opening remarks, i'm going to request gilles dorronsoro to please come and make his opening comments. then he will be followed by mr. ikram sehgal. thank you. >> well, it is a pleasure to be here, and i want to thank you for your nice introduction, even if i have to mention that i was on the afghans died of the border. recently, of course. so, i think that when you look at 2010 what you see in afghanistan is a very good year for the taliban, naturally speaking. then we can discuss. but naturally speaking, very good year. the taliban movement made progress in the north, the east, the center in pakistan is basically safe. it is a good idea for the center. and you have a huge group in the south which is not producing clear results at the moment. so that is the first. the second thing is that 2011 is going to be an interesting year. in 2011 we are going to see if it is working and not. here we are. that is the way to see the larger picture. you have a condition to succeed. none of the world, it easy to win. can the car is two hours from pakistan by car. the full support of the p

so with those opening remarks, i'm going to request gilles dorronsoro to please come and make his openingill be followed by mr. ikram sehgal. thank you. >> well, it is a pleasure to be here, and i want to thank you for your nice introduction, even if i have to mention that i was on the afghans died of the border. recently, of course. so, i think that when you look at 2010 what you see in afghanistan is a very good year for the taliban, naturally speaking. then we can discuss. but naturally speaking, very good year. the taliban movement made progress in the north, the east, the center in pakistan is basically safe. it is a good idea for the center. and you have a huge group in the south which is not producing clear results at the moment. so that is the first. the second thing is that 2011 is going to be an interesting year. in 2011 we are going to see if it is working and not. here we are. that is the way to see the larger picture. you have a condition to succeed. none of the world, it easy to win. can the car is two hours from pakistan by car. the full support of the pakistan military. my

so with those opening remarks, i'm going to request gilles dorronsoro to please come and make his opening comments. then he will be followed by mr. ikram sehgal. thank you. >> well, it is a pleasure to be here, and i want to thank you for your nice introduction, even if i have to mention that i was on the afghans died of the border. recently, of course. so, i think that when you look at 2010 what you see in afghanistan is a very good year for the taliban, naturally speaking. then we can discuss. but naturally speaking, very good year. the taliban movement made progress in the north, the east, the center in pakistan is basically safe. it is a good idea for the center. and you have a huge group in the south which is not producing clear relts at the moment. so that is the first. the second thing is that 2011 is going to be an interesting year. in 2011 we are going to see if it is working and not. here we are. that is the way to see the larger picture. you have a condition to succeed. none of the world, it easy to win. can the car is two hours from pakistan by car. the full support of the pak

gilles. >> mr. dorronsoro wants to clarify one thing. and understand your second goal of u.s.policy to have influence, long-term influence into central asia and iran from afghanistan. i just wanted to clarify did you think that was a sustainable policy or not? is there anything which is consistent with u.s. interests there? >> for the first question, yeah i was probably not very clear. knowno, my idea was basically it is at some point you find something which is generally not very impressive but something is going to top. so, no it is not. the second question is i have a clear idea. what i think we should do us much more difficult, vis-À-vis afghanistan. first, india should not help support and finance the groups, people who are trying to sell in washington the idea that they are going to contain the alabama alabama -- taliban if we give them arms and money. and i am not speaking theoretically. it is very practical. so, think it is a very bad idea because the idea that we could withdraw for example. that is what the ambassador was suggesting. when we withdraw from afghanistan