HOME

Press Center

Transcripts/Audio/Video | Detail

Pakistan's Elections: Free, Fair, and Safe? Pre-Election Analysis
February 15, 2008

Associated Programs:

Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Related Research Focus:

Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Synopsis:

AUDIO (mp3, 01:15:55)

All eyes are on Pakistan ahead of the February 18th parliamentary elections. Pakistan’s leadership faces the challenge of holding free and fair elections, and maintaining security. The results could shape the course of the country’s politics for years to come.

The PCR Project hosted Pakistani political experts and activists and international observers by teleconference from Pakistan to discuss the election and its implications.

 

Featured guests included:

Sarwar Bari, Secretary General of Free and Fair Election Network;  Islamabad, Pakistan

Staffan Darnolf, Country Director, IFES Pakistan; Islamabad, Pakistan

Ijaz Shafi Gilani,
President, Gallup Pakistan; Islamabad, Pakistan

Osama Siddique,
lawyer, activist and Associate Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS); Lahore, Pakistan

Other guests will be announced in the coming days.

Both events moderated by
Rick Barton, Co-Director, PCR Project, CSIS

 


Visit www.pcrproject.com for publications, commentary, and more information about our work.

Looking for more audio clips? Portions of this event are also available as podcasts:

1) Pakistans Upcoming Elections: Voter Registration and Candidate Issues?
2) Pakistans Upcoming Elections: Transparency, Delays, and Vote Rigging?

 

Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1800 K Street, NW, Washington DC, 20006 | Tel: 202-887-0200 | Fax: 202-775-3199