Research: PU faculty present papers in the US

PU teacher says changing notions of national security have posed new challenges for Pakistan’s policy makers.

LAHORE: Pakistan needs to review its national security policy in view of the various security threats, external pressures and internal challenges, Dr Iram Khalid, a faculty member of the Punjab University Department of Political Science, said in her presentation at the 2014 ISIS-Miami Beach International Multidisciplinary Academic Conference in Miami USA where she read her paper, Changing Pattern of Pakistan’s National Security Policy Post 9/11 Era. The changing notions of national security have posed new challenges for Pakistan’s policy makers facing a two-front dilemma: internal instability and a social transformation from moderation to a reactionary society, and economic survival, said Dr Khalid. Pakistan needs internal consensus and political will to counter these challenges, she said. Lecturer Ahmed Ali Naqvi also presented his research on Regional Stability Through Regional Economic Linkages: A Case of Afghanistan-Pakistan-India. He said the lack of stability in the region had resulted in new security threats regionally and globally. It had also left millions of people in abject poverty, he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 3^rd, 2014.