AAM and Geo TV have joined together for Between Frontiers, an exclusive series of hour-long programs broadcast nationally in Pakistan on connecting policymakers, experts and audiences in Washington with their counterparts in Pakistan. These timely programs focus on the ongoing military operations in Pakistan and border region, and the critical relationship between the US, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
This episode from Washington, DC takes a critical look at Pakistan's counterinsurgency capabilities; the refugee crisis in the Swat valley, expectations for the newly introduced Kerry-Lugar legislation and the possibility of insurgents gaining control of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal.
Guests: John Negroponte, former Deputy Secretary of State, 2007-2009; Director of National Intelligence, 2005-2007; U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, 2004-2005 and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, 2001-2004; and Richard Burt, leader, Global Zero, a campaign to eliminate the threat of proliferation and nuclear terrorism; former U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1985-1989; former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, 1983-1985 and a chief nuclear weapons negotiator during the Cold War.
BETWEEN FRONTIERS – FEBRUARY 2009 PART 1
Part one focuses on working towards a regional approach to the issues facing Afghanistan and Pakistan, the role development aid and reconstruction projects should play, suicide bombings and the potential threat posed by Pakistan's agreement with the Taliban in the Swat Valley.
From Washington: Karl Inderfurth, Former U.S. Representative for Special Political Affairs to the United Nations with the rank of Ambassador, and Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs, 1997-2001; John Gastright, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs and Coordinator for Afghanistan, 2005-2007; and Daniel Markey, PhD, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations.
From Islamabad: Shamshad Khan, Former Pakistan Foreign Secretary; Tasneem Noorani, Former Pakistan Interior Ministry Secretary and Secretary of Commerce.
BETWEEN FRONTIERS – PART 2
The second part of the program focuses on the potential threat posed by Pakistan's agreement with the Taliban in the Swat Valley, human rights issues and changing the perception of Americans in Pakistan, US drone attacks, the militant threat to Pakistan's sovereignty and how the US can bring democracy and better relations to the region.
BETWEEN FRONTIERS – JANUARY 2009 PART 1
Taped just two days after the historic presidential inauguration of Barack Obama, this program focuses on the new U.S. administration, the bilateral relationship with Pakistan, the fight against extremism and the conflict in Afghanistan.
From the United States: Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, 2001- 2005; David Grange, Brigadier General, (Ret.), and President and Chief Executive Officer of the McCormick Foundation, whose 30 years of service in the U.S. Army took him to a variety of posts, culminating as Commanding General of the First Infantry Division.
From Pakistan: Mushahid Hussain, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Dr. Babar Awan, Federal Minister of Parliamentary Affairs; Khurshid Kasuri, Former Foreign Minister under President Pervez Musharraf.
BETWEEN FRONTIERS – PART 2 continued
BETWEEN TWO FRONTIERS – PART 1
* Hosts: AAM's Ashhar Quraishi and Geo TV's Mohammad Malick
* Original Airdate: Oct 2008
AAM and Geo TV Pakistan partnered to produce an internationally televised conversation on the critical relationship between the US and Pakistan, and the crisis in the Tribal Areas.
From Washington: Ambassador Thomas Pickering, Vice Chairman of Hills and Company International Consultants and holds the rank of Career Ambassador, serving in six countries over five decades; Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation; Joshua White, Graduate Fellow at the Institute for Global Engagement and a Ph.D candidate at The Johns Hopkins University in South Asia studies, who recently spent a year in Peshawar.
From Peshawar: Owais Ahmed Ghani, Governor of the North West Frontier Province.
BETWEEN TWO FRONTIERS – PART 2
From Washington: Stephen Cohen, Senior Fellow on Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institute; Nicholas Schmidle, Fellow in the America Strategy Program at The New America Foundation.
From Peshawar: Rahimullah Yusufzai, leading Pakistani journalist and expert on Afghan affairs; Afrasiab Khan Khattak, Provincial President of Pakistan's Awami National Party.
