On 5-6 March 2009 Pugwash organised a meeting, ‘Prospects for Restarting the India-Pakistan Dialogue’, in Islamabad to address the emerging bilateral relationship after the Mumbai terror strikes on the November 26, 2008. It was part of the larger Pugwash track-II dialogue initiative in the region that began in 2002.
Islamabad meeting report [PDF]
Participant List
Pakistan
Sherry Rehman, Information Minister and spokesperson, Government of Pakistan
Abdul Sattar , former Foreign Minister
Najmuddin Shaikh, former Foreign Secretary
Aziz Ahmad Khan, former Ambassador to Afghanistan and High Commissioner to India
Humayun Khan, former Foreign Secretary and High Commissioner to India
Lt. Gen. (ret) Talat Masood, former Defense Secretary
Ahmer Bilal Sofi, Advocate Supreme Court and President, Research Society for International Law
Rustam Shah Mohmand, Pakistan Afghanistan Jirga, Former Chief Secretary NWFP, former Ambassador to Afghanistan
Safyia Aftab, Resarch Fellow Strategic and Economic Policy Research
Waleed Rasool, AJK University
Sardar Attique Ahmed Khan, former PM of Azad JK & Leader of the Opposition AJK Assembly
Arif Kamal, Ambassador & Director Global Studies, National Defence University
Tariq Osman Haider, former Foreign Additional Secretary
Shah Ghulam Qadir, Speaker AJK Assembly
Abdul Hameed Toor, Professor, Department of Physics QeA University
Zahid Hussain, journalist, the Times, Wall Street Journal
Nasim Zehra, journalist and associate, Harvard University
Ismail Khan, journalist
Shafqat Kakakhel, diplomat
Moeed Yusuf, Harvard University and Boston University
India
Amitabh Mattoo, Professor JNU University, former Vice Chancellor Jammu University
Uday Bhaskhar, Cmdr (ret.)
Raja Menon, Rear Admiral (ret.)
Mehbooba Mufti, President PDP of JK, Member of Parliament (Lok Sabha)
Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, Molvi and PDP of JK
Uma Singh, Professor, JNU University
Kapil Kak, Air Vice Marshall (ret.)
Madhu Kishwar, journalist
Ved Bhasin, chairman Kashmir Times
Happymon Jacob, JNU University
Pugwash
Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary General, Pugwash
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