Pakistan: Between a Rock and a Hard Place

AAM partnered with Geo TV Pakistan on Friday, October 31 for a ground-breaking televised discussion with experts and hosts in Washington and Peshawar, connected by satellite to talk about the challenges that lie ahead for a new administration. The discussion focused on the critical US relationship with Pakistan and the Tribal Areas in the war on terror, the search for Osama Bin Laden, and governance of the tribal areas bordering Pakistan and Afghanistan

Guests in Washington:

• Ambassador Tom Pickering, Vice Chairman of Hills and Company International Consultants
• Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation
  
• Stephen Cohen, Senior Fellow on Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution
• Joshua White, Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement and a Ph.D. candidate at The Johns Hopkins University in South Asia studies, who recently spent a year in Peshawar
• Nicholas Schmidle, Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.
  

• Owais Ahmed Ghani, Governor of the North West Frontier Province
• Rahimullah Yusufzai, Expert on Afghan Affairs
• Afrasiab Khan Khattak, Provincial President of Awami National Party

This program was moderated by Geo TV's leading anchor Mohammad Malick and AAM’s Ash-har Quraishi, former Islamabad Bureau Chief for CNN