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Pakistan: A Nation in Turmoil?

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Event Date

  • 7/8/2009   6:00 PM - 7:00 AM
    Please arrive early for registration

Location

  • World Affairs Council Auditorium

Address

  • 312 Sutter Street
    Second Floor
    San Francisco, California 94108
Speaker(s)
Jon Summers, Representative, The Asia Foundation

Jon Summers is The Asia Foundation's country representative in Pakistan. Dr. Summers joined the Foundation in 1979, serving as country representative for Malaysia and Singapore, and conducting preparatory work for Foundation programming in Brunei. He then served as the director of the Foundation's Asian-American Exchange program in San Francisco. He subsequently served as country representative for Bangladesh and Nepal from 1987 to 1991, country representative in Indonesia from 1991 to 1996, and country representative in Cambodia from 1996 to 2002, before assuming his current position. Prior to joining the Foundation, he was executive director of the Afghan-American Educational Commission, responsible for administering the Fulbright program in Afghanistan, and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan, teaching English at Kabul University.

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It is a time of great difficulty and change in Pakistan. The country is dealing with an insurgency that is putting significant pressure on the military, police, government, and citizens. Terrorist threats and attacks are on the increase. People are being displaced in significant numbers. The country faces profound economic challenges. As Pakistan's military steps up an offensive against the Taliban, what is the true state of affairs within Pakistan? In tribal regions, how does the development of civil society, the judicial system, and local governance differ from the rest of the country? And, how has recent fighting in the Northwest Frontier Province and the tribal belt near the Afghan border impacted the region’s inhabitants? Dr. Jon Summers, an Asia Foundation expert based in Islamabad until last month, and in Kabul, prior to that, joins the Council to discuss the current situation in Pakistan.

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