Pakistan's Troubled Frontier: FATA and the Security Challenge for South Asia with Hassan Abbas
VIEW EVENT DETAILSAsia Society Bernard Schwartz Fellow Hassan Abbas will discuss Pakistan's drift into sectarian violence and "Talibanization." Abbas will explore pressing questions about Pakistan's situation. Why has Pakistan lurched back and forth between democratic governments and military dictatorships? Why do America and Pakistan have such a complicated relationship? How will violence in FATA (the federally administered tribal areas) affect the security of South Asia as a whole?
Abbas will explore these themes in a discussion of religious extremism and corruption in Pakistan today, and will suggest some possible solutions for Pakistan's increasingly troubled future.
Hassan Abbas is currently a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society's New York headquarters. Abbas joined Columbia University's South Asia Institute as Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professor in January 2010. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Abbas is also a former Pakistani government official who served in the administrations of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1995'1996) and President Pervez Musharraf (1999'2000). His latest book, Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror, has been on bestseller lists in India and Pakistan and was widely reviewed internationally, including by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Hindu, and Dawn. He has also appeared as an analyst on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, Al Jazeera, and PBS, and as a political commentator on VOA and BBC.
Radha Kumar is Director of the Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia University and trustee of the Delhi Policy Group. Formerly Senior Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, she was Executive Director of the Helsinki Citizen's Assembly in Prague and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. She is currently on the Board of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), a member of the Council on Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP India), and an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society in New York.
Abbas will explore these themes in a discussion of religious extremism and corruption in Pakistan today, and will suggest some possible solutions for Pakistan's increasingly troubled future.
Hassan Abbas is currently a Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society's New York headquarters. Abbas joined Columbia University's South Asia Institute as Quaid-i-Azam Chair Professor in January 2010. He is also a Senior Advisor at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Abbas is also a former Pakistani government official who served in the administrations of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto (1995'1996) and President Pervez Musharraf (1999'2000). His latest book, Pakistan's Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America's War on Terror, has been on bestseller lists in India and Pakistan and was widely reviewed internationally, including by the New York Times, the Boston Globe, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Hindu, and Dawn. He has also appeared as an analyst on CNN, MSNBC, C-Span, Al Jazeera, and PBS, and as a political commentator on VOA and BBC.
Radha Kumar is Director of the Mandela Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution at Jamia Millia Islamia University and trustee of the Delhi Policy Group. Formerly Senior Fellow in Peace and Conflict Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, she was Executive Director of the Helsinki Citizen's Assembly in Prague and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for War and Peace Studies at Columbia University. She is currently on the Board of the UN Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR), a member of the Council on Security and Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP India), and an Associate Fellow of the Asia Society in New York.
Event Details
Mon 15 Mar 2010
India International Centre, 40 Max Mueller Marg New Delhi
Free admission. Please call 91 22 6610 0888 for more information.