The former military chief is expected to talk at length about Pakistan Army’s counter-insurgency operations. PHOTO: AFP
The former military chief, who retired in November last year, is expected to talk at length about Pakistan Army’s counter-insurgency operations and improved security environment in the country as well as in the region. The WEF annual meetings will start on Tuesday in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, and continue for four days. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will also attend the meeting.
General (retd) Raheel will address three sessions of the WEF, in addition to speaking at many events arranged on the sidelines of the WEF. This includes a dinner by the Munich Security Conference.
The WEF’s 47th Annual Meeting represents the largest and most diverse meeting of leaders from all stakeholder groups. Priorities of the annual meeting are strengthening global growth; reforming market capitalism; preparing for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and re-imagining global cooperation.
This year the theme of the meeting is Responsive and Responsible Leadership and over half of the programme’s 400 sessions will address strategies for fostering greater social inclusion and human development. This time a record 3,000 participants, coming from all continents, will be attending the event. Prominent among them are China’s president, America’s vice president, and the British prime minister.
Gen Raheel will attend one of the important sessions on the Global Security Context as a speaker. The session will address various dimensions, including noteworthy changes and emerging trends reshaping the international security agenda. The recalibration of US security priorities, geostrategic shifts and future conflict domains will also be explored during the session.
King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies Chairman Turki Al Faisal Al Saud of Saudi Arabia and Federal Minister of Defence of Germany Ursula von der Von der Leyen are other prominent speakers.
Chatham House Director Robin Niblett will moderate the session.
He will attend another important session “Terrorism in the Digital age”. Terrorist organisations are using increasingly sophisticated digital networks to signal allegiance to a wider movement, attack their enemies and manage resources. The speakers would discuss dimensions like fragmented struggles against al Qaeda, Dai’ish and Boko Haram, responsible leadership in international security and resilience to the global network. The other speakers include Assistant Secretary- General and Counter- Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate Jean-Paul Laborde, Vice-President of Nigeria Yemi Osinbajo and Director Europol [Europea Police Office] Rob Wainwright.
The former military chief would also address another session on “Securing Our Future”. This session will review the possibilities of how global actors can exercise responsive and responsible leadership to stabilise an international security system threatened by unilateral and short-term thinking.
Other speakers are Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini and Salil Shetty, Secretary-General, Amnesty International.
Gen Raheel will also speak about the developing opportunities in South Asia after Pakistan and China undertook the CPEC –the largest bilateral programme in terms of money involved in it. He will also highlight Pakistan Army’s counter insurgency operation and improved security environment in the country and the region.
Published in The Express Tribune, January 14th, 2017.
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