Insurgent Threat Shifts in Pakistan

Front page story by Pamela Constanble on attack on Police academy at Manawan near Lahore, Pakistan. 31 March 2009.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/30/AR2009033000098.html?hpid=topnews

Afghan and Pakistan Delegations Arrive in Washington

Article from Foreign Policy blog by Laura Rozen Feb 22, 2009

http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/02/22/afghan_and_pakistani_delegations_arrive_in_washington

The Causes and Consequences of Extremism in Pakistan

A panel discussion at the US Institute for Peace with Faiysal Ali Khan, Shuja Nawaz, Jim Bever, and Rick Barton. Organized jintly by CSIS and USIP. February 3, 2009

http://pomed.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/pomed-notes_usip_2_3_09.pdf

Pakistan's muddled war: CFR commentary

Commentary on the Council for Foreign Relations website on February 5, 2009

http://www.cfr.org/publication/18472/pakistans_fickle_war.html?breadcrumb=%2Fissue%2F135%2Fterrorism

2 U.S. Airstrikes Offer a Concrete Sign of Obama's Pakistan Policy

Quoted in Washington Post story January 24, 2009

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/23/AR2009012304189.html

Shuja Nawaz to Head South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council

On January 12, 2009 Shuja Nawaz started as the first Director of the new South Asia Center of the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington DC.

For details visit

http://acus.org/event_blog/shuja-nawaz-direct-south-asia-center-atlantic-council

He can be reached at snawaz@acus.org

Next President Faces Growing Crisis in Afghanistan

Jackie Northam's report for NPR's Special Series on Pakistan and Afghanistan, October 17, 2008

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95837996

Speaker at Middle East Institute Conference November 21, 2008

I will be speaking at the Annual Conference of the Middle East Insitute, Washington DC this year on 21 November 2008.

For details click here

http://www.mideasti.org/conference/2008-annual-conference

Pakistan blast toll rises .... The LA Times

Article in the Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2008 on the attack on the Marriot Hotel in Islamabad

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-pakistan22-2008sep22,0,4833736.story

Mullen Visits Pakistan as US Raid Stirs Tensions: Washington Post

Article by Pamela Constable September 17, 2008 in The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091601956.html

Musharraf May Quit by James Rupert

Article for Bloomberg News

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a2.4DPjhHUKk&refer=home

Worldview: Pakistan's Uncertain Future

Column by Trudy Rubin in The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2008

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/20080820_Worldview__Pakistan_s_uncertain_future.html

Afghanistan, Another Vietnam?

Commentary by Arnaud De Borchgrave for UPI

http://www.metimes.com/Security/2008/07/11/commentary_afghanistan_another_vietnam/3162/

US Steps Up Unilateral Strikes Within Pakistan

Front page Washington Post article by Robin Wright and Joby Warrick

27 March 2008

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032700007.html?hpid=topnews

New Pakistani Leaders Tell Americans There’s ‘a New Sheriff in Town’

Article by Jane Perlez in The New York Times 26 March 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/world/asia/26pstan.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Letter from Pakistan: TIME BOMB by Steve Coll

Article On Pakistan 28 January 2008

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/01/28/080128fa_fact_coll

Looking forward to Politics & Prose in DC!

Barbara Meade of Politics & Prose, the leading independent bookstore and our favorite in Washington DC, sent out a newsletter to her list last night (18 March 2008) mentioning Crossed Swords

Check it out at

http://www.politics-prose.com/barbara.htm

A New Deal in Pakistan by William Dalrymple

Article in The New York Review of Books

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21194

On the Long Road to Freedom Finally by Willam Dalrymple

Article on Pakistan after the elections by Dalrymple on Tehelka.com, India's leading website

February 29, 2008

http://www.tehelka.com/story_main38.asp?filename=Ne080308on_the.asp

Pakistan's military adjusts to return of civilian rule

A panel discussion on the VOA's Engish TV service

http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-02-21-voa50.cfm

Musharraf's Party Admits Defeat

Front Page article in The New York Times by Carlotta Gall & Jane Perlez,

19 February 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/20/world/asia/20pakistan.html?hp

Pakistan's elections result: early reactions

I shall be on NPR's Diane Rehm Show on Tuesday 19 February 2008

Check it out at http://wamu.org/programs/dr/08/02/19.php#18848

The Pakistan Army and Post-Election Scenarios

Talk by Shuja Nawaz, with Ayesha Siddiqa, moderated by Ashley Tellis

Carnegie Endowment, Washington DC ,Wednesday 13 February 2008

10-12 Noon

See transcript and video here:

http://www.carnegieendowment.org/events/index.cfm?fa=eventDetail&id=1093&&prog=zgp&proj=zsa