On this edition of ST, we speak with Ambassador Husain Haqqani, who served as Pakistan's ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011. Now working as a Hudson Institute Senior Fellow, where he is also the Director for South and Central Asia, Haqqani is widely credited with managing a difficult American-Pakistani partnership during a critical phase in the global war on terrorism. He has, moreover, served as an advisor to four different Pakistani Prime Ministers; he is also co-editor of the journal Current Trends in Islamist Ideology. He spoke recently at the Tulsa Committee on Foreign Relations, giving a talk on "U.S. Interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan," and he spoke with us while he was in town.
A Conversation with Husain Haqqani, Former Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S.
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