FW: Pakistan, Afghanistan & Regional Dynamics Post 2014 US Drawdown

[Rashid Makhdoom]

 

 

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From: Athar Javaid
Date:04/07/2014 11:10 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Athar Javaid
Subject: Fwd: Pakistan, Afghanistan & Regional Dynamics Post 2014 US Drawdown

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johns Hopkins University

School of Advanced International Studies SAIS http://www.sais-jhu.edu

      

 

INDUS – Mobilizing People’s Power

A Washington DC based Think Tank dedicated to “A Progressive & Politically stable Pakistan http://www.induspk.org

 

Cordially invite you to attend an informal talk & discussion on:

 

PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN AND REGIONAL DYNAMICS

POST 2014 US DRAWDOWN

                                                                             Speaker: Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi                

                                                              Special Advisor on International Affairs to largest media conglomerate JANG – GEO

 

Date: Friday April 11, 2014

Time: 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM  

Place: Johns Hopkins University Campus

1619 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC, 20036 Room # 812 

 

 

The fates of these two nations are apparently inseparable. The story of Afghanistan-Pakistan relations is a long and complex one. For the last two years they have blamed each other for the success of the insurgency. However the eminent US drawdown may ultimately lead to increased cooperation between the two nations, despite the fact that disagreements between Afghanistan and Pakistan over their disputed border and long festering regional issues are resurfacing as a decade of intense US involvement, combatting Al-Qaeda and Taliban winds down. Can a security agreement with the west stem a security meltdown? Will renewed demands of the insurgency in both countries lead to proxy warfare by intelligence services on the two sides backing different factions of the insurgency? Will the west continue to support preserving gains and denying space to Al-Qaida to re-group in Afghanistan?

 

Dr Maleeha Lodhi is Special Adviser for international affairs to Pakistan’s largest media conglomerate, the Jang/Geo Group. She served as Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US (1993 – 1996, 1999 – 2002) and as High Commissioner to Britain (2003 – 2008). She served as a member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Affairs from 2001 to 2005.She was the first woman in all of Asia to become the editor of a national newspaper. In 1994 Time magazine nominated her as one of a hundred people in the world who will help shape the 21^st century, the only one from Pakistan. Dr Lodhi is a member of the Council of the London-based International Institute of Strategic Studies, a member of the Senate of Pakistan’s National Defense University,  serves on the advisory board of the Middle East Center at the London School of Economics and is a member of the Global Agenda Council of the World Economic Forum. Dr Lodhi was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington in 2010 and a Fellow at Harvard University’s Kennedy School in 2008.  She is the recipient of the President’s award of Hilal-e-Imtiaz for Public Service in Pakistan.  Lodhi also received an Honorary Fellowship from the London School of Economics in 2004 and an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Letters from London’s Metropolitan University in 2005. Dr Lodhi was the founding editor of Pakistan’s leading English daily, The News.  She is the author of two books: Pakistan’s Encounter with Democracy and The External Challenge. Her latest book, an edited volume titled Pakistan: Beyond the ‘Crisis State,’ was published in 2011

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