Washington, DC. In last May, an Asia Program event at the Woodrow Wilson Center cosponsored and featured Khaled Ahmed, a Pakistani scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center, and Yitzhak Nakash, a Jew and an Islamic history expert of the Middle East and former fellow at Wilson Center.
Ahmed said that, fortunately or unfortunately, most Pakistani Shias […]
Washington, DC. In a meeting at Amnesty International, under the supervision of Kumar, director of Asia Human Rights, he strategize about what should be done concerning the violation of human rights and getting the UNO involved in the investigation of Benazir Bhutto’s murder.
Kumar also gave the ideas about maximizing the outcome of the opposition leaders’ […]
In February, The Brookings Institution hosted a discussion on the future of the U.S.-Pakistan military relationship with three distinguished speakers: General Jehangir Karamat, Pakistan’s Army Chief of Staff from 1996 to 1998 and its Ambassador to the United States from 2004 to 2006; General Anthony Zinni, a former Marine general who served as Commander, United […]
Washington, D.C. “Every Nuclear Expert we met says there is going to be nuclear terrorist attack in the States, but no one knows when”, says Journalists Douglas Frantz and Catherine Collins, the authors of new book named The Nuclear Jihadist. Addressing over several dozen people at the Politics and Pros book store, Frantz said he […]
The value of the Pakistani Military investment amounts to around 6 percent of Pakistan’s total gross domestic product (GDP), Ayesha Siddiqa. September last year, in the Asia Program event cosponsored by the Middle East Program, Siddiqa, the author of a book titled Military Inc., explored Pakistan military role in establishing its own inefficient economy which […]
Observing current relative tranquility in the country its difficult to imagine how Pakistan seemed to be in critical condition just a few months back. For example, on January 14, 2008, my friend Ruth Dominguez, who authored this report, and I attended a gathering in Washington’s centrist think tank names New America Foundation (NAF). The […]
Washington, D.C., After the September 11, it has become the fashion for some con-artists, who could disguise themselves as Sufis, to get attention by trashing Islam. In last August, I attended an event at The Heritage Foundation (THF), a conservative think tank, which is located at walking distance from my home in Washington DC, around […]
Washington, D.C, Mr. Sadruddin Hashwani, the Chairman Orient Petroleum Inc, and his daughter Sarah Hashwani, Chairman Hashoo Foundation, introduced Hashoo Foundation and other associate organs to the dozen of guests at the beautiful mansion of well known Pakistani-American couple names Ms. Shaista and Rafat Mahmood. Having observed many successful Pakistani-Americans arranging socio-political events at their […]
On March 30, The Johns Hopkins University led a discussion where, among some other scholars, Zia Mian, a scholar of Princeton University, gave an unbalanced and misleading presentation on the topic of ‘Pakistan in the Shadow of the Bomb.’
Perhaps as a diversion tactics, Mian tried to gave the impressions of having profound personal empathy for […]
Having observed Washington for over two decades, I have learned that mostly its Pakistani ruling class’s selfish and power-clinging attitude that make Pakistani diplomats’ job of improving Pakistani image a difficult to impossible one. It’s generally the leadership in Islamabad, which by preserving its personal interests, indirectly encourages every kind of organization, including some […]
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