Pakistan is at a crossroads. While the threat from al-Qaeda has been diminished, militancy is still a critical, evolving, and growing threat. Pakistan lags behind most of its neighbors in many economic and human development indicators, while its democratic institutions are undercut by recurring civil-military crises and its political class is mired in a paralyzing fight that has crippled its legitimacy and its ability to govern. All of these issues require urgent attention and action by progressive forces within Pakistan, working with a vision shaped and supported in concert with the international community. This Working Group, chaired by Thomas R. Pickering, and comprised of a broad and diverse assemblage of Pakistani and international figures deeply concerned about the country’s future, believes it is time for Pakistan to wake up to its responsibilities to address these problems, and for its international partners to assist where they can.
The Members of The Century Foundation International Working Group on Pakistan
Thomas R. Pickering, Working Group Chair
Vice Chairman, Hills and Company; former U.S. Undersecretary of State
for Political Affairs
Robert P. Finn, Principal Investigator
Non-Resident Fellow, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination,
Princeton University; former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan
Michael Wahid Hanna, Principal Investigator
Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
Mosharraf Zaidi, Principal Investigator
Campaign Director, Alif Ailaan
United States
Steve Coll
Dean, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Cameron Munter
Professor of Practice in International Relations, Pomona College;
former U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan
Barnett Rubin
Senior Fellow and Associate Director, Afghanistan Pakistan Regional
Program, New York University Center on International Cooperation;
former Senior Adviser to the Special Representative for Afghanistan
and Pakistan in the U.S. Department of State
James Shinn
Chairman, Teneo Intelligence; CEO, Predata; Lecturer, Princeton
University; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian
and Pacific Security Affairs
Anthony Zinni
Former Commander-in-Chief, United States Central Command
International
Richard Barrett
Senior Vice President, The Soufan Group; former head, United Nations
al Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Monitoring Team
Hikmet Çetin
Former Turkish Foreign Minister
Antje Grawe
Former Counselor, German Embassy, Pakistan
Jean-Marie Guéhenno
President, International Crisis Group
Nobuaki Tanaka
Former Japanese Ambassador to Turkey and Pakistan
Ann Wilkens
Former Chair, Swedish Committee for Afghanistan; former Swedish
Ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan
Pakistan
Tariq Banuri
Professor in the Departments of Economics and City and Metropolitan
Planning at the University of Utah
Imtiaz Gul Executive Director, Center for Research and Security Studies
Ishrat Husain
Dean and Director of the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi
Asma Jahangir
Advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan; Chairperson, Human
Rights Commission of Pakistan
Riaz Khohkar
Former Pakistani Foreign Secretary
Tariq Khosa
Former Director General, Federal Investigation Agency
Jugnu Mohsin
Publisher and Editor, The Friday Times
Ahmed Rashid
Journalist and author
Sherry Rehman
President and Founding Chair, Jinnah Institute; former Pakistani
Ambassador to the United States
Najam Aziz Sethi
Editor-in-chief, The Friday Times
Moeed W. Yusuf
Director of South Asia Programs, United States Institute of Peace
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