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A CSIS Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project event with Afranasiab Khattak, was quoted in the Philadelphia Inquirer, "Help Pakistan's Civilian Leaders and Army Combat Jihadis who Endanger Their Society-and Ours."
March 23, 2008

Author:

Trudy Rubin

Associated Programs:

Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Related Research Focus:

Asia

Excerpt:

Earlier this month, America's top military commander, Adm. Mike Mullen, named the place from which the next attack on the United States was most likely to come.

It wasn't Iraq. [...]

The ANP's leader, Afranasiab Khattak, is a prominent human rights activist, lawyer and constitutional expert. "The recent elections have demonstrated that Pashtuns do not support extremism," Khattak said on a conference call organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.

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