US scholar visits IPRI

Current status of US-Pakistan relations, progress on the insurgency, strategic cooperation discussed.

ISLAMABAD: Renowned American journalist and scholar Frederick Kempe who now heads the Atlantic Council, a ‘radical centrist’ think-tank of USA, and well known Pakistani political analyst and author Shuja Nawaz who is now director of the Council’s  South Asia Center, visited the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI)  on Thursday.

They exchanged views on the current status of US-Pakistan relations, the factors that impeded the growth of trust between the two countries, and what was the progress on the insurgency and counter-insurgency fronts in relation to tactical and strategic cooperation between the two countries.

Shuja Nawaz is an eminent student of Rawalpindi’s Gordon College who rose to prominence as a newscaster of PTV. He is author of FATA: A Most Dangerous Place and Cross Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars Within.

Fred Kempe had a long and prominent career at the Wall Street Journal.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 3^rd, 2010.