There will be no peace in the tribal areas: Imran Khan

WASHINGTON -- Cricketer-tunred-politician Imran Khan has remarked that peace will remain elusive in Pakistan's tribal belt unless the root cause is understood.

Maleeha Lodhi new Public Policy Scholar at Wilson Center

WASHINGTON -- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in collaboration with the Fellowship Fund for Pakistan (FFFP), a charitable trust based in Karachi, today announced the appointment of Ambassador Maleeha Lodhi as a Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar. Lodhi will spend nine months in residence at the Wilson Center, beginning in September 2009, carrying out research for a book looking at the internal and external challenges Pakistan has faced since 2001. 

Lodhi twice served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, in 1994-97, and again in 1999-2002.  From 2003 until 2008, she held the post of Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. From September-December 2008, she was a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School. Prior to her diplomatic service, she was a journalist and editor successively of  the Muslim and the News, two of Pakistan’s leading dailies.  In the 1980s she taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, where in 1980 she had earned a Ph.D. in politics.  She is the author to two books, and is a regular columnist on national and international affairs in the Pakistani and international press.

WASHINGTON -- The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in collaboration with the Fellowship Fund for Pakistan (FFFP), a charitable trust based in Karachi, today announced the appointment of Dr. Sabiha Mansoor as the Wilson Center's new Pakistan Scholar. Mansoor will spend nine months in residence at the Wilson Center beginning in September 2009, carrying out research and writing a book on fashioning a professional development strategy for higher education faculty in Pakistan.

Mansoor is currently professor and dean of the School of Education at Beaconhouse National University in Lahore. Previously, she was professor and head of the Centre of English Language at Aga Khan University in Karachi, and also a professor and lecturer at Kinnaird College in Lahore. She has written a number of books on higher education and language instruction in Pakistan and South Asia, including Language Planning in Higher Education: A Case Study of Pakistan, published by Oxford University Press in 2005.

Mansoor will succeed Ambassador Riaz Mohammad Khan, the Wilson Center's Pakistan Scholar from January-August 2009, who during his stay at the Center has worked on a book looking at the impact on Pakistan of the conflict in Afghanistan, as well as the broader regional and international implications of that conflict. -- PR