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Participants:
Laila Bokhari
Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs
Associate Fellow, International Centre for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence, Kings College, United Kingdom
Stephen P. Cohen
Senior Fellow, 21st Century Defense Initiative, The Brookings Institution
C. Christine Fair
Assistant Professor, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Ambassador (ret.) Tariq Fatemi
Retired Member, Pakistan Foreign Service
Mohan Guruswamy
Chairman, Centre for Policy Alternatives, New Delhi
Brig. (ret) Shaukat Qadir
Retired Brigadier, Pakistani Army
Ambassador (ret.) William Milam
Senior Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson Center
Shuja Nawaz
Director, The Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center
Hasan Askari Rizvi
Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, University of the Punjab, Lahore
Aqil Shah
Post-Doc Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Sir Hilary Synnott, KCMG
Retired British Diplomat
Consulting Senior Fellow, International Institute for Strategic Studies
Marvin G. Weinbaum
Scholar-in-Residence, Middle East Institute
Anita M. Weiss
Professor and Department Head of International Studies, University of Oregon
Joshua White
Ph.D. Candidate, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
Research Fellow, Institute for Global Engagement
Moeed W. Yusuf
South Asia Adviser, United States Institute of Peace, Center in the Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention
The papers together represent a comprehensive attempt to look at Pakistan’s future.7
Several paper writers were encouraged to range beyond a discussion of factors and a prediction
of the future to discuss specific issues in depth. Laila Bokhari looked closely at radical groups
and militants in Pakistan, especially the Punjab, while Josh White focused more on
developments in the Frontier. Fatemi, Milam and Synnott, the three former diplomats, each
looked at Pakistan’s strategic environment, but mostly focused on the influence of India and the
United States. Mohan Guruswamy did not explore Pakistan in general, but did provide a finegrained
study of China’s role. Shaukat Qadir and Hasan Askari Rizvi were asked to pay special
attention to the state’s dominant bureaucracy, the army, and Anita Weiss, one of the very few
sociologists to work in Pakistan over the last few decades, shared her insights about social and
gender issues in a rapidly changing state. Marvin Weinbaum and Chris Fair represent two
generations of Americans with deep knowledge of Pakistan, and they focused on political and
party developments and state coherence.