Inaugural Reading by
Pakistani Scholars at Berkeley
The Pakistan Weekly Forum, in cooperation with the South
Asia Center, UC Berkeley, presents the inaugural reading
from the following titles: Rethinking the National Security
of Pakistan by Ahmad Faruqui & Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism:
Allah, The Army, And America's War On Terror by Hassan Abbas,
on January 28. The panel: Ahmad Faruqui is a columnist for
Daily Times, Lahore, and Pakistan Link, Newport Beach, California.
He is a fellow of the American Institute of International
Studies and a member of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction.
An economist specializing in defense and energy analysis,
he is the author of "Rethinking the National Security of
Pakistan", Ashgate Publishing, 2003. Hassan Abbas, is currently
a Research fellow at the Harvard Law School and a PhD candidate
at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University,
USA. His articles have been published in leading Pakistani
and US newspapers. His book 'Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism:
Allah, The Army, And America's War On Terror' examines the
rise of religious extremism in Pakistan, and analyzes its
connections to Pakistan Army's policies and the fluctuating
US-Pakistan relations. Professor Tariq Rahman is currently
the Quaid-i-Azam Scholar on Pakistan Studies at the University
of California, Berkeley.
He is a National Distinguished Professor at Quaid-i-Azam
University in Islamabad, Pakistan. Professor Rahman has
published widely on language, literature and linguistics.
He is the author of 12 books and has contributed 95 scholarly
articles to books and journals. He holds a PhD in English
from the University of Sheffield, where he served as a British
Council Research Scholar. Zulfiqar Ahmad is the president
of Eqbal Ahmad Foundation and a Senior Associate with The
Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development.
He has been involved with various NGOs working on education
and security issues over the last ten years and has also
been a frequent writer on foreign policy and security issues
for various US and South Asian newspapers.
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