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Presented
paper in two-day workshop on South Asian Nuclear Project:
Understanding South Asia's Nuclear Crisis Behavior, Social
Science Research Council, Washington, DC, January 16-18,
2004 |
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Re-inventing Pakistan:
Islam, Security and Democracy-What is changing? Conference
on Islamization and the Pakistani Economy, Woodrow Wilson
International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., January
27, 2004. |
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Presented
paper at the 19th Annual South Asia Conference at the
University of California, Berkeley. Professors Peter Lavoy
and Charles Kennedy were the other members of the panel.
Presented a paper titled: |
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Experimenting
Democratic Governance: the impact of Local Government
Ordinance 2001 on Pakistani Bureaucracy, February 13-14,
2004. |
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Pakistan
and US Relations: A strategic partner or a front line
state again? The University Seminar, Columbia University,
May 3, 2004. |
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Prospects
for Peace in South Asia: 2nd Conference on South Asian
Security January 21 & 22, 2003, Bechtel Conference
Center, Stanford University; participated and presented
a paper: Does the Islamic world really matter in South
Asia: a Historical and Prospective View. |
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Organized
first International Conference on Pakistan at Columbia
University. April 11-13, 2003. |
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Participated
in the conference on Reconstructing Afghanistan: Challenges
and Opportunities, organized by the Center for International
Conflict Resolution at Columbia University, September
25, 2003. |
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Two day Colloquium
on Rethinking India's political Economy, Southern Asian
Institute and Barnard College at Columbia University,
New York, November 15-16, 2003. |
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US- Pakistan
and South Asia: Future Directions, Social Science Research
Council Washington, D.C. February 27, 2002. |
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54th Annual
Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, held April 4-7,
2002, Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington, D.C. Delivered
presentations in two panels (I) Civil Society Unbridled?
The Civil Society under the Military Regime in Pakistan
Today (ii) The Bush Administration and South Asia: Change
or Continuity? |
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Religious
Groups and Politics in Pakistan, Conference on Pakistan:
Islam and Civil Society at the Dawn of the 21st Century,
School of International Service, American University,
Washington, and D.C April 8, 2002. |
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Asymmetric
Warfare in South Asia: Causes and Consequences of the
Kargil Conflict, May 29- 01 June 2002, Naval Post Graduate
School, Monterey, California. Presented paper: "The
Impact of Kargil on Pakistani Politics and Society." |
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Taking Pakistan
into the 21st Century: The Economic and Political Challenges,
Wilson Center's Asia Program and the Pakistan America
Institute, Washington, D.C July 24th, 2002. Presented
a paper on Crisis of Governance and Constitutional Changes
in Pakistan. |
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The 31st
Annual Conference on South Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
October 10-13, 2002, presented on two panels; Insurgency,
Terrorism, Conventional and Nuclear Wars and Does the
US make a Difference in Stabilizing South Asia? National
Advisory Council on South Asian Affairs. |
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US-Asia Relations
Today: A New 'New World Order'? December 2-4, 2002 International
Colloquium, CERI-Sciences Po, 56 rue Jacob, Paris (France).
Presented a paper; "The United States and Pakistan:
Again a Frontline State or a Strategic Partner?" |
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One day workshop
on The Muslim Minorities in New York City Project, The
Middle East Institute and Center for Urban Research and
Policy at SIPA, April 30, 2001. |
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Eighth Annual
Associated Press/Harriman Institute Conference on Ten
Years of Independent Russia: Problems and Prospects, May
04, 2001. |
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Jointly sponsored
conference by the UN and Columbia University on Urbanizing
World and the UN Habitat II, June 4-6, 2001. |
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Served on
the Organizing Committee and participated in the International
Conference on Urdu Scholarship in Transnational Perspective
organized by Southern Asian Institute, Columbia University,
September 28-30, 2001. |
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Lectured
on America, Pakistan, and the Emerging World Order, The
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University,
and Washington, D.C., October 15, 2001. |
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30th Annual
South Asia Conference, University of Wisconsin at Madison;
presented a paper on Federalism and Decentralization in
Pakistan: Old Problems New Challenges. Discussant on panels
on Marginal Peoples and Wandering Borders: The Integration
of Autonomous Regions and Unruly Space into Pakistani
State. Pakistan and Taliban, October 18-21, 2001. |
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One-day Workshop
for Educators on the World Islam after the WTC, Columbia
University and five other institutes, November 02, 2001. |
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Explaining
Linkages; Domestic Structures and Good Governance: A case
study of Pakistan, D-8 Conference on Good Governance and
Institutional Reforms, February 20 - 21, 1999. |
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Democracy
in Pakistan; Value Change and Challenges in Institution
Building, 14th annual general meeting of the P.S.D.E.,
January 28 - 30, 1999. |
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International
Conference on Peace and Security in South Asia after India-Pakistan
Nuclear Tests. Organized by Department of Defense and
Strategic Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad;
December 3-5, 1998. |
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Presented
a Paper at Conference on Fifty Years of Pakistan: Retrospective
and Perspectives at Paris France. Organized by Pakistan
and French Governments under a Cultural Exchange Program;
June 2-8, 1998. |
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Seventh Afro-Asian
Philosophy Association Conference, Presented a Paper on
Changing Value Structure in Pakistan: Tradition Vs Modernity,
1997. |
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Presented
a Paper at Conference on Canada Today, Organized by Area
Study Center, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 1996. |
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Organized
a Workshop on the Civil Services of Pakistan: Challenges
and Opportunities, at the Civil Services Academy, (DMG
Campus), Lahore, 1995. |
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Conference
on the US and World Order, Organized by Area Study Center
for Africa and North and South America, Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad, October 11-12, 1994. |
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Conference
organized by National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad, June 06, 1994. |
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Conference
organized by National Institute of Historical and Cultural
Research, Islamabad; August 30, 1994. |
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Conference
organized by National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad on, December 4-5, 1994. |
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U.S.A.I.D
Workshop on Democracy in Asia, Katmandu, Nepal, Presented
a Paper on "Trends toward Democratization in Asia,"
1992. |
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Key Note
Address on the Inter-Services Public Relations Conference
on Defense and Media, 1991. |
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All Pakistan
Political Science Conference, Karachi University. Presented
a paper on "Political Culture of Pakistan and National
Integration," 1991. |
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International
Seminar on Quaid-i-Azam, Organized by Ministry of Education,
Islamabad, 1989. |
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International
Seminar on "National Stability and Regional Security
in South Asia, Islamabad, Organized by Department of International
Relations, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, June 26-28,
1988. |
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Workshop
on writings on PAKISTAN by Pakistani Authors, Organized
by NIPS, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, March 26,
1988. |
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Workshop
on PAKISTAN STUDIES, organized by National Institute of
Pakistan Studies, 1986. |
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Discussant
in the National Seminar on Problems and Prospects of the
Discipline of History in Pakistan held at the University
Grants Commission Islamabad, 1985. |
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Organizing
Secretary, All Pakistan Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai Congress,
Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, 1979. |
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Panel Discussant
and Academic Secretary in Various Sessions of International
Congress on Quaid-i-Azam, held under the auspices of Quaid-i-Azam
University, Islamabad, 1976. |
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Pakistan
History Congress, Academic Secretary in various sessions,
1973. |
