Pakistan on the Brink: A Conversation with Ahmed Rashid

Thursday, May 3, 2012
Speaker
Ahmed Rashid
Correspondent, Far Eastern Economic Review
Presider
Ed Husain
Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

Leading Pakistani journalist and bestselling author Ahmed Rashid analyzes the current state of Afghanistan and Pakistan, prospects for U.S. government negotiation with the Taliban, and the potential ramifications of U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan.

This was a meeting of the Civil Society, Democracy, and Countering Radicalism Roundtable.

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