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Seminar: Sikkerheds-situationen i Pakistan anno 2012 – Lokale og regionale udfordringer
TIME: Monday, 7 May, 9.30 – 12.00
VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K
TIME: Monday, 7 May, 9.30 – 12.00
VENUE: Danish Institute for International Studies, Main Auditorium, Strandgade 71, ground floor, Christianshavn, 1401 Copenhagen K
Deepening the understanding of Pakistan’s security challenges on a local and regional scale is instructive to understand reasons behind recent cleavages in US-Pakistani relations.
In the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), political autonomy and militant cross-border activities raise one set of concern that is intimately linked to the uncertainty about who will govern the neighboring country when the western alliance draws the troops out.
In Punjab, Pakistan is witnessing an increase in sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni groups. In Baluchistan, separatist demands about higher levels of autonomy and independency play into the old security trauma of loosing Bangladesh. In Kashmir, an entirely different set of concerns are present, relating to the ongoing cold war with India, and the ultimate risk that it would transform into yet another war.
This seminar will focus on Pakistan’s security concerns anno 2012 given the county’s internal and regional challenges and the interplay between them. The speakers will discuss what the main security threats from a Pakistani perspective are, and how they relate to Pakistan’s foreign policy towards neighboring India, Afghanistan and Iran.
Speakers
Ayesha Siddiqa, Author and analyst
Ashraf Ali, President of FATA Research Centre
Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Postdoc, DIIS
Programme:
09.30-09.45: Introduction; Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Postdoc, DIIS
09.45-10.30: Pak-Afghan Taliban Nexus − a Threat to Regional Security in the Post NATO Withdrawal Scenario; Ashraf Ali, President of FATA Research Centre
10.30-11.15: Pakistan Post 2014; Ayesha Siddiqa, Author and analyst
11.15-12.00: Q & A
Chair: Mona Kanwal Sheikh, Postdoc, DIIS
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Read more about the seminar and use the online registration form on the website no later than Thursday, 3 May at 12.00 noon.
Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.
