Live event: The Battle for Pakistan

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Few places in the world have assumed as much importance for the United States and its allies since 2001 as Pakistan’s northwestern tribal regions, which have served as a base for the mix of militants seeking to attack the governments, militaries, and civilians of the United States, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and others. In just over half of the serious plots against the West since 2004, alleged militants received training at camps in Pakistan.

Join the New America Foundation’s Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative and Foreign Policy magazine for the launch of a unique series of policy papers, ‘The Battle for Pakistan,’ written by local Pakistani researchers and other experts on politics and militancy in Pakistan’s tribal areas.

Agenda

Introduction

Peter Bergen
Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative
New America Foundation
Author, The Osama Bin Laden I Know

Panel 1: Politics and Military Operations in Pakistan’s Northwest

Panelists
Hassan Abbas
Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professor, Columbia University, South Asia Institute
Bernard Schwartz Fellow, Asia Society
Author, “Inside Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province: The Political Landscape of the Insurgency” (forthcoming)

Sameer Lalwani
Research Fellow, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative
New America Foundation
PhD Student, Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Author, “Pakistan’s COIN Flip: The Recent History of Pakistani Military Counterinsurgency Operations in the NWFP and FATA” (forthcoming)

Moderator
Susan Glasser
Executive Editor, Foreign Policy Magazine

Panel 2: The Battle for Pakistan: Militancy and Conflict in the Tribal Regions

Panelists
Imtiaz Ali

Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow
United States Institute of Peace

Brian Fishman
Counterterrorism Research Fellow, New America Foundation
Author, “Militancy and Conflict in the Tribal Regions” (forthcoming)
Co-author, “Militancy and Conflict in North Waziristan” (forthcoming)

Catherine Collins
Co-Author, The Man From Pakistan (2008)
Co-Author, “Financing the Taliban: Tracing the dollars behind the insurgencies in Afghanistan and Pakistan” (forthcoming)

Moderator
Peter Bergen
Co-Director, Counterterrorism Strategy Initiative
New America Foundation
Author, The Osama Bin Laden I Know

 

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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