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| Director: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia |
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May 2007 - Present
The South Asia Roundtable Series examines the major issues facing South Asia today. On Afghanistan, speakers and participants analyze stability, reconstruction, and counterinsurgency efforts. For sessions on Pakistan, they consider many aspects of the nature of the U.S.-Pakistan partnership, ranging from counterterrorism cooperation to issues of governance. Meetings on India look at the U.S.-India relationship and the tensions, limits, and opportunities that will define the American relationship with India moving forward. Other sessions may also examine timely issues that arise in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, or Nepal.
Meetings
South Asia Roundtable Series: India's Post-1998 Nuclear Profile-Implications for India's Strategy and Force Posture
Related Project: South Asia Roundtable Series
| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Commodore C. Uday Bhaskar, Independent Security Analyst |
C. Uday Bhaskar is one of India's leading security analysts and formerly the Deputy Director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in New Delhi. A veteran of 37 years in the Indian Navy, Cmde. Bhaskar is currently the Convener of the India International Centre Study Group and a Contributing Editor to South Asia Monitor. Prior to retirement, he was Member-Secretary of the Government of India Task Force on Global Strategic Developments.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Afghanistan-Prospects for the Coming Year
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Lt. Gen. David W. Barno, Director, Near East South Asia Center, National Defense University |
| Minister Ali Jalali, Distinguished Professor, Near East South Asia Center, National Defense University |
Over the course of his military service, Lt. Gen. Barno served in a variety of command and staff positions in the continental United States and around the world. He deployed in October 2003 to Afghanistan, where for 19 months he commanded over 20,000 U.S. and Coalition Forces in Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan.
Minister Jalali served as Afghanistan's Interior Minister from January 2003 to September 2005. Prior to assuming his post as Minister, Mr. Jalali was the Director of Afghanistan National Radio Network Initiative and Chief of the Pashto Service at the Voice of America in Washington, DC.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Under New Leadership-Analyzing the India-U.S. Post-Election(s) Relationship
Related Project: South Asia Roundtable Series
| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Harinder Sekhon, Senior Fellow, Observer Research Foundation |
Harinder Sekhon is senior fellow in India-U.S. relations at the Observer Research Foundation in Delhi. Before joining ORF, Dr. Sekhon was with India's National Security Council Secretariat.
South Asia Roundtable Series: The Impact of Media on Afghanistan’s Political Space
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speakers: | Jahid Mohseni, Chief Operating Officer, Moby Media Group |
| Saad Mohseni, Chairman, Moby Media Group |
Saad Mohseni is chairman and co-founder of Moby Media Group, Afghanistan's largest independent media company, whose holdings include Afghanistan's most popular television station, Tolo TV. Moby Capital's media outlets reach some 8 million Afghans daily, representing over 60% of the total media audience in the country.
In just five years, Jahid Mohseni has led the operations of Moby Media Group, which now produces world class news, current affairs and entertainment - across two TV stations, a radio station, and Afghanistan's largest production company.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Security and Development in Pakistan's Tribal Areas
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Javed Iqbal, Civil Service of Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
South Asia Roundtable Series: India-Iran Ties - Strategic Convergence or Tactical Collaboration
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Harsh V. Pant, Lecturer, Defense Studies Department, King's College London |
Dr. Harsh Pant is assistant professor of defense studies and associate with the Center for Science and Security at King's College London.
South Asia Roundtable Series: U.S.-India Defense and Security Trends - Strategic Convergence?
Related Project: South Asia Roundtable Series
| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | James C. Clad, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, South and Southeast Asia, U.S. Department of Defense |
Dr. Clad has studied security and economic trends in Asia for over two decades. Immediately prior to joining OSD, he was a professor of near east and south Asian studies at the National Defense University. Prior to that, Dr. Clad was a professor of south and southeast Asian studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and, concurrently, director/Asia Pacific for Cambridge Energy Research Associates. Dr. Clad has held fellowships from St. Antony's College/Oxford, the Carnegie Endowment, and Harvard University.
South Asia Roundtable Series: India in its Neighborhood - The Challenges Ahead
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Indrani Bagchi, Diplomatic Editor, The Times of India |
Indrani Bagchi is diplomatic editor at The Times of India, India's largest English-language daily newspaper. Ms. Bagchi has previously written for The Economic Times and India Today.
South Asia Roundtable Series: NATO in Afghanistan - A Campaign Assessment
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Karl Eikenberry, Deputy Chairman, NATO Military Committee |
Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry is deputy chairman of the NATO Military Committee in Brussels, Belgium. He was previously commander of the Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan. He has served in various strategy, policy, and political-military positions, including director for strategic planning and policy for U.S. Pacific Command; U.S. security coordinator and chief of the Office of Military Cooperation in Kabul, Afghanistan; assistant Army and later defense attaché at the United States Embassy in Beijing, China; and deputy director for strategy, plans, and policy on the Army staff.
South Asia Roundtable Series: A Discussion of India's Long-Term National Interests
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Santosh Kumar, Senior Consultant, Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations |
Ambassador Santosh Kumar has been a senior consultant for ICRIER since his retirement from the Indian Foreign Service in 2005. Over the course of his career in the Foreign Service, he served as India's ambassador to South Africa, South Korea, and Yemen and as the DCM to the European Union. From 2002 to 2004, Ambassador Kumar was the Dean of India's Foreign Service Institute.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Afghanistan - Rhetoric and Reality
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Rory Stewart, Chief Executive Officer, Turquoise Mountain Foundation |
Rory Stewart is the bestselling author of "The Places in Between," an account of his journey on foot from Herat to Kabul in 2002. He now serves as CEO of Turquoise Mountain Foundation, an NGO devoted to restoring the historic cultural and commercial center of Kabul. His day-to-day dealings with tribal elders, Afghan and western government officials and foreign aid workers offer insights into the broader challenges and opportunities encountered in Afghanistan today.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Nepal's Fragile Political Process
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Rhoderick Chalmers, South Asia Deputy Project Director, International Crisis Group |
Rhoderick Chalmers is based in Kathmandu, Nepal and is primarily responsible for the International Crisis Group's reporting on Nepal's Maoist insurgency. In addition to examining the roots of the conflict and means of containing and resolving it, he coordinates research on specific areas including political parties and constitutional reform, cross-border security issues, ethnic movements, and Maoist politics.
South Asia Roundtable Series: A Conversation with Riaz Mohammad Khan
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Riaz Mohammad Khan, Foreign Secretary, Islamic Republic of Pakistan |
Riaz Mohammad Khan is foreign secretary of Pakistan. Before becoming foreign secretary in 2005, Mr. Khan served as Pakistan's ambassador to China, the European Union, Belgium, Luxembourg, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. He has also acted as the spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and additional foreign secretary responsible for multilateral affairs, disarmaments control issues and economic coordination.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Military Inc. - Inside Pakistan's Military Economy
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Ayesha Siddiqa, Independent Security Consultant |
Ayesha Siddiqa is currently an independent security consultant and writes a regular column for the prominent Pakistani newspaper, Daily Times. Previously a correspondent for Jane's Defence Weekly, Dr. Siddiqa has also served as a Ford Fellow, a visiting fellow at the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Islamabad, and the first Pakistan Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C.
South Asia Roundtable Series: The Political Power of Pakistan's Media
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | I.A. Rehman, Director, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan |
A lifelong journalist who served as chief editor of the Pakistan Times, I.A. Rehman is also a leading figure in Pakistani civil society and the South Asia human rights community. In addition to his longstanding role with HRCP, Mr. Rehman has served on the board of the South Asian Forum for Human Rights and South Asia Partnership (SAP) Pakistan.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Militancy in the Pashtun Belt - Perspective of a Jirga Participant
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Khalid Aziz, Chairman, Regional Institute of Policy Research and Training |
Khalid Aziz serves as chairman of the Regional Institute of Policy Research and Training and runs a development and security consulting firm in Peshawar. Over the course of his more than 30 years of civil service in Pakistan, he headed the NWFP Planning, Environment and Development Department and formulated and executed poppy-substitution projects in NWFP and tribal areas. He has published in numerous journals and newspapers and participated in the Afghan-Pak jirga in Kabul earlier this month.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Good Taliban, Bad Taliban - The Challenges of Pakistan's Tribal Areas
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| Presider: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Speaker: | Hassan Abbas, Research Fellow, Harvard University |
Mr. Abbas has studied and worked in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, where he served as the Sub-Divisional Police Chief from 1996-1998. He later acted as the Deputy Director of Investigations in Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau from 1999-2000. Mr. Abbas is also the author of Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, The Army, And America's War On Terror.
South Asia Roundtable Series: Winning Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan - How Effective Is Reconstruction Assistance?
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| Speakers: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Andrew Wilder, Research Director, Feinstein International Center, Tufts University |
Andrew Wilder is the research director at Tufts University's Feinstein International Center. Prior to joining Tufts, he worked in Afghanistan, where he established and was the first director of Afghanistan's first independent policy research institution, the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU). He also served for six years as the director of the Pakistan/Afghanistan program of Save the Children (US).
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