Pakistan to Be in Focus
at Harvard Seminar
Washington,
DC:: A seminar on ‘State Aggression and Its Repercussions
on Human Rights,’ the main point of focus being Pakistan,
will be held at Harvard on December 5.
Organized by Pakistani journalist and human rights activist
Beena Sarwar and moderated by Boston-based Pakistani academic
Adil Najam, the main themes of the one-day event are: ‘State
Aggression: The Broader Issues’ (speakers Hussain Haqqani
on how US foreign policy plays into the issue and Hassan Abbas
on Pakistan’s domestic and foreign policy), ‘State
Aggression: Legal and Individual Cases’ (speakers Lawrence
Lifschultz and Charlie Sennott), ‘The Impact of State
Aggression on the Media’(speakers Nasim Zehra on the
media and the Balochistan/Waziristan issue, Bob Dietz on the
media in Pakistan and Imtiaz Ali on being a journalist in
the NWFP), and a concluding group discussion on ‘State
Aggression in Pakistan, Its Impact within the Country and
on South Asia and Beyond’.
The discussants are expected to include Andy McCord (South
Asia specialist), Murtaza Solangi, Voice of America filmmakers
Liz Gould and Paul Fitzgerald, Martin Lau of Harvard University,
Shahla Haeri of Boston University, Amy Waldman (former South
Asia correspondent of New York Times) and journalists Eliza
Griswold and Jill Carroll.
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