Event: discussion on media and Pakistan’s stability
An event this week by the: Institute for War & Peace Reporting
Is the increasingly media-savvy violent extremist movement in Pakistan a threat to the stability of the state?
The discussion will be moderated by author and BBC journalist Owen Bennett Jones in conversation with:
· Maqbool Ahmed, Pakistani journalist and winner of the 2009 Kurt Schork Award for International Journalism. Maqbool’s reporting has included the Swat Valley, where the local Taliban until recently exercised its rule through illegal FM radio stations which it used to broadcast the names of those it was planning to kill.
· Shafi Naqi Jamie, the BBC Urdu Service’s desk editor and a native of Karachi. Shafi has lived in the UK for many years, reporting on the Pakistani Diaspora, and regularly makes visits back to Pakistan to interview high profile politicians and leaders.
· Nir Rosen, an American-born freelance journalist and winner of the 2009 Kurt Schork Award whose work has spanned Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and “other popular tourist destinations.” His work on girls’ schools in Pakistan’s Swat valley during Taliban rule, as well as his journey deep into Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in 2008, have attracted high acclaim.
IWPR Programme Consultant, Ella Rolfe, will open the discussion with a short introduction to IWPR’s Open Minds Pakistan programme, which trains in country school students in journalism, current affairs, media awareness and skills to express themselves in a balanced and tolerant way through the media.
The discussion will take place at the IWPR offices, 48 Gray’s Inn Road, London WC1X 8LT.
Please ensure you RSVP to Vanessa@iwpr.net
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I’d have loved to attend this..I just got back from peshawar and boy do i have loads of stories.
Of course it is, they’re fighting a war on fronts that the United States has for donkey’s years.
The Taleban and al-Qaeda aren’t stupid: they’re mimicking the tactics that The West have used to spread their message of Jihad to Muslims the world over just like the Americans and Britain have used Hollywood and the such to further their cause in foreign lands.
Don’t forget: bin Laden was the CIA’s boy against the Soviets… these guys might live in caves but they certainly aren’t simpletons!
Stability is something else and security situation is something else. During ww2 when german Luftwaffe was bombing london day and dayout, night and night out, I think stability of Britain wasnt an issue. De-stability arises from anarchy, revolution, civil-war etc. TTP’s does not have such support or strenght that they can destabalize pakistan. We have a genuine security sutauation which is terrorism. No matter how much lives terrorism claims it is only classed as a high level of crime(according to law) rahter than a war. International media claims that Pakistan is being de-stabalized because they want an excuse to get rid of our nuclear program. They have played such games before please refer to suez canal crisis in 1950s and you will notice 99% resemblance.
@3 Bollocks.
What we need:
The US needs to find a way for Pakistan to surrender to an unstoppable future permanent member of the UNSC, and massively crucial trading partner without losing face.
How do we get it:
Uhhhhh….