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Friendly Fire?
Conflict and Crisis in Pakistan
President-elect Obama and his administration will confront significant challenges in dealing with post-Musharraf Pakistan, where regime change has failed to bring stability to Afghanistan’s nuclear-armed neighbor and America’s ally in the “war on terror.” Recent U.S. airstrikes against Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters in the tribal areas along the Afghan border have infuriated the Pakistani government and raised key questions: Can the United States fight the Taliban and Al Qaeda without alienating Pakistan? Is the Pakistani government, hampered by a crumbling economy, fighting Islamic militants or giving them safe haven, and what do Pakistan’s actions mean for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan? On the heels of the U.S. presidential election, and nearly one year after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, a distinguished panel of experts will address the continuing crisis in Pakistan, exploring its policy, security, and military implications for the incoming U.S. administration.
 Tariq Ali is a journalist, filmmaker and the author of numerous books, including The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power and The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity. He is a member of the editorial board of the New Left Review and a frequent contributor to BBC radio, the Guardian, and the London Review of Books. As a student activist, Ali was the inspiration behind the Rolling Stones song Street Fighting Man, and sparred with the likes of Henry Kissinger and then-British foreign secretary Michael Stewart in widely publicized debates about the Vietnam war. He was born in Lahore, Pakistan, and studied at Punjab University before completing his degree at Exeter College, Oxford.
 Elizabeth Rubin is a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine, and is currently the Edward R. Murrow press fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. Since October 2001 she has reported extensively on Pakistan and Afghanistan, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Livingston Award for International Reporting. Her stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, Harper’s, and the New Yorker. Ms. Rubin earned a B.A. from Columbia University, and an M.Phil from Oxford University.
Moderated by Marshall Bouton. Marshall M. Bouton is president of The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Prior to that, he served twenty years at the Asia Society in New York. Previous positions include director for policy analysis in the office of the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Near East, Africa and South Asia, special assistant to the U. S. ambassador to India, executive secretary for the Indo-U.S. Subcommission on Education and Culture, and program director for India affairs at the Asia Society in New York. Mr. Bouton earned a B.A. (cum laude) in history at Harvard, an M.A. in South Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago in 1980.
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