Islamabad: Senior analyst Dr. Shahid Masood on Wednesday statedAfghanistan’s situation has worsened and deal won’t be struck.

Analyzing rapidly changing regional situation in his widely-watched showLive With Dr. Shahid Masood, the analyst stated that as many as ninemembers of Afghanistan’s Atlantic Council have made it overtly clear thatthey won’t accept the deal.

On reports about deadlock, Mr. Masood stated that deadlock has emerged andit persists thus far.