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(talk) Pakistan's Tribal North West

Posted November 17th, 2008 by Mary
in
2008-11-18 17:30

 

Panel discussion:  Pakistan's Tribal North West (FATA): America's Front Line against Terrorism

WHEN:                  Nov. 18, 2008, Tuesday, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

WHERE:                Tufts University, Fletcher School of Diplomacy
                              Cabot 206
                              Medford, Mass.

PRESENTED BY:   Tufts Center for South Asian and Indian Ocean Studies
                              Co-sponsor: Tufts University History Department

Directions:             fletcher.tufts.edu/directions/Default.asp

Contact:                Shahla Hussain, Shahla.Hussain (AT) tufts.edu
                              617-627-3558 
                              ase.tufts.edu/southasian/events.asp

PANELISTS:   Najmuddin Shaikh and Imtiaz Ali
moderator:  Ayesha Jalal

Imtiaz Ali is an eminent Pakistani journalist. He is currently a Yale World Fellow and a special correspondent for the Washington Post. 

He has worked for the BBC Pashto Service and with Pakistan's premier English daily publications, The News and Dawn.  Since Sept. 11, 2001, he has reported extensively on the Taliban-led militancy in the border regions and Pakistan's military operations against al-Qaeda and their local supporters in the tribal areas of Pakistan.

Mr. Ali was a Knight Journalism Fellow at the John S. Knight Fellowships Program at Stanford, 2006-2007.

Najmuddin Shaikh is Pakistan's former ambassador to the United States.  A graduate of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (1962), he has held various diplomatic assignments and has served as ambassador to Canada (1987-89), ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany (1989-90), and as ambassador of Pakistan to Iran (1992-94).

He has also served as Pakistan's special envoy to Yemen, Sudan, Kenya and Bahrain (February '05). Mr.

Shaikh is currently a member of the board of governors of the Institute of Strategic Studies and senior vice president of the Karachi Council of Foreign Relations. He writes a weekly column on foreign affairs for the Dawn.