Date & Time
July 28, 2010
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location
Institute for Policy Studies Conference Room
1112 16th Street NW, Ste 600
Washington, DC, USA
Endgame: Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Politics of U.S. Withdrawal
What would a U.S./NATO withdrawal mean for the region and for the future of Pakistan?
President Obama promises to begin transferring U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2011. A new international conference in Kabul endorses Afghan President Karzai’s call for Afghanistan to be in charge of its own security by 2014. Meanwhile, facing its own Islamist insurgency and growing economic and political crises, Pakistan considers its options in Afghanistan.
What would a U.S./NATO withdrawal mean for the region and for the future of Pakistan? Join IPS and MERIP to hear two of Pakistan’s best analysts on the wars and the region discuss
- The present crisis in Pakistan regarding the Taliban and other Islamist forces
- Pakistan's policy in Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s concerns about the role of India
- Perceptions in the region regarding U.S. policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan as well as India, and anticipation of U.S. withdrawal.
Pervez Hoodbhoy is a leading Pakistani physicist and public figure. He is a widely published commentator on Pakistani current affairs and appears frequently on television. He has been on the faculty of Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad, Pakistan's leading public university, for over thirty years. He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Maryland.
Zia Mian directs the Project on Peace and Security in South Asia at Princeton University's Program on Science and Global Security. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP).
This event is cosponsored by the Institute for Policy Studies and MERIP.