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Pugwash Meeting no. 280
Pugwash Workshop

Avoiding an India-Pakistan Nuclear Confrontation
Lahore, Pakistan, 11-12 March 2003


Final Participant List



Participants of Pugwash Workshop: Avoiding an India-Pakistan Nuclear Confrontation

 

Lt.-Gen. Nishat Ahmad, Member, Advisory Council on Security & Foreign Policy to the Government of Pakistan [formerly: Commandant, National Defence College, Islamabad; President, Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad]

Dr. Samina Ahmed, Project Director Afghanistan/South Asia, International Crisis Group (ICG), Islamabad, Pakistan [formerly: Research Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Senior Research Analyst, Institute of Regional Studies, Islamabad]

Group Captain Khalid Banuri, Deputy Director, Arms Control & Disarmament Affairs (ACDA), Strategic Plans Division, Joint Staff Headquarters, Chaklala Cantt., Rawalpindi, Pakistan; Visiting Faculty, Defence & Strategic Studies Department, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad

Gen. Mirza Aslam Beg, Chairman, Foundation for Research on International Environment, National Development and Security (FRIENDS), Rawalpindi Cantt., Pakistan [formerly: Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan]

Mr. Farhan Bokhari, Pakistan Correspondent, Financial Times, Rawalpindi (Cantt), Pakistan

Dr. Jeffrey Boutwell, Executive Director, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, Washington, DC, USA [formerly: Associate Executive Officer, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge; Staff Aide, National Security Council, Washington, DC]

Prof. Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema, President, Islamabad Policy Research Institute, Pakistan [formerly: Iqbal Professorial Fellow, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany (1996-2000); Director General, Academy of Educational Planning and Management, Ministry of Education, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad (1995-96); Professor and Chairman, Department of International Relations, Quaid-I-Azam University, Islamabad]

Prof. Paolo Cotta-Ramusino, Secretary-General, Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs; Professor of Mathematical Physics, University of Milan, Italy; Secretary General, Union of Italian Scientists for Disarmament (USPID); Director, Program on Disarmament and International Security, Landau Network - Centro Volta, Como, Italy

Lt. Gen. (ret) Asad Durrani, recently Ambassador of Pakistan to Saudi Arabia [formerly: Director General, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI); Commandant, National Defence College; Ambassador to Germany]

Gen. (ret.) Mahmud Durrani, Council Member, IISS, London, UK [formerly: Chairman and Chief Executive, Pakistan Ordinance Facotries Board; Commander of an Armoured Division; Military Secretary to a President of Pakistan; Pakistan's Military Attaché in Washington, DC]

Dr. Rose Gottemoeller, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, DC, USA [formerly: Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security, Deputy Undersecretary of Energy for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation; Deputy Director, International Institute for Strategic Studies, London; Director, National Security Council for Russia, Ukraine, Eurasia, The White House; Senior Researcher, RAND Corporation]

Mr. Ejaz Haider, Foreign/Op-Ed Editor, The Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan ; News Editor, The Friday Times [formerly : Visiting Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution (Nov 2002-March 2003); Ford Scholar, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security (ACDIS), Univ. Of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1997]

Mr. Mubashir Hasan, former Minister of Finance, Government of Pakistan; former Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore

Prof. Pervez Hoodbhoy, Member, Pugwash Council; Professor, Department of Physics, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan


Gen. (ret) Jehangir Karamat, former Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Army Staff, Pakistan
Office: IPRI, Islamabad, Pakistan,

Amb. Aziz Ahmad Khan, Additional Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Islamabad, Pakistan

Dr. Shaukat Hameed Khan, Director General (O & C), Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, Islamabad

Lieutenant Colonel Tahir Masood, Strategic Plans Division, Chaklala, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Lt.-Gen. (ret.) Talat Masood, Independent Columnist, Commentator and Analyst, Islamabad, Pakistan [formerly: retired Lt. General; Secretary, Defence Production Division, Ministry of Defence; Chairman, Pakistan Ordnance Factories Board; various command, staff and instructional appointments in the armed forces]

Mr. Robert S. McNamara, former U.S. Secretary of Defense; former President of the World Bank; former President, Ford Motor Company

Prof. Abdul Nayyar, Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Islamabad, Pakistan; on leave from the Physics Department, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

Dr. Alexander Nikitin, Director, Center for Political and International Studies (CPIS), Moscow, Russia; Deputy Chair, Russian Pugwash Committee of Scientists for Disarmament and International Security; Vice-President of the Russian Political Science Association; Professor, Moscow State Institute of International Relations; Member, Pugwash Council

Dr. Haider Nizamani, Global Security and Cooperation Fellow of the Social Science Research Council, Sustainable Development Policy Institute (Islamabad, Pakistan), and Institute of International Relations, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC, Canada) [formerly: Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies, California; Research Fellow, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad]

Ms. Arifa Noor, Assistant Editor, Daily Times, Lahore, Pakistan [formerly: Assistant Editor, The News on Sunday]

Brigadier Qasim Qureshi, Strategic Plans Division, Joint Staff Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Adm. Laxminarayan Ramdas, Chair, Pakistan-India Peoples Forum for Peace & Democracy, Maharashtra, India [formerly: Chief of the Naval Staff, India (1990-93)]

Mr. Abbas Rashid, Coordinator, Society for the Advancement of Education, Lahore, Pakistan; Columnist, Daily Times, Lahore [formerly: Instructor in International Relations, Civil Services Academy (Federal Government); Contributing Editor, The Muslim (national daily newspaper); Acting Editor, The Frontier Post (National daily newspaper)]

Prof. Dr. Hasan-Askari Rizvi, Political and Defense Consultant, Lahore, Pakistan [formerly: Member, Faculty of Political Science, Punjab Univesity, Lahore (1971-2001), including Professor of Political Science (1990-2001); Quaid-i-Azam Distinguished Professor-Pakistan Chair, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York (Dec. 1995-July 1999)]

Brig. Naeem Salik, Director, Arms Control & Disarmament Affairs, Strategic Plans Division, Joint Staff Headquarters, Rawalpindi, Pakistan; Visiting Professor, Defence & Strategic Studies Department, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad

Hon. Abdul Sattar, Member, Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights, Palais des Nations, Geneva [former Foreign Minister of Pakistan, Islamabad]

Mr. Najmuddin Shaikh, retired Pakistan Foreign Service Officer, Karachi; Member of the Board of Governors, Institute of International Affairs, Islamabad [formerly: Foreign Secretary to the Government of Pakistan (1994-97); Ambassador of Pakistan to Iran (1992-94), the USA (1990-91), the FRG )1989-90) and Canada (1987-89)]

Dr. Abdul Hameed Toor, Assistant Professor of Physics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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