Pakistan's Fmr. Ambassador on Regional Challenges

Intelligence Matters

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Politics, News, Government

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🗓️ 24 July 2018

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Pakistan's former Ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, who takes stock of Pakistan's prevailing domestic ideologies, its fraught regional relationships, and explains how it deals with Washington today. Just ahead of the elections in Pakistan, Haqqani describes the entrenched challenges facing the country and explains what political leaders can do to confront them. He also shares themes from his latest book, Reimagining Pakistan: Transforming a Dysfunctional Nuclear State.

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0:38.0	Pakistan needs to change.
0:40.2	Fact that Pakistan chose to become an ideological country with its ideology having only two
0:46.2	pillars, religion, Islamic religion, and antipathy towards India.
0:50.2	That is the reason why Pakistan does not do well economically.
0:55.4	What happens if Pakistan can't change?
0:57.8	It is always the potential for political fragmentation or internal conflict that lasts for a long
1:03.3	time.
1:04.3	Pakistan must change for its own sake.
1:09.6	Hussein Akhani is currently a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute.
1:13.4	He served as Pakistan's ambassador to the United States from 2008 to 2011, and he is widely
1:18.7	credited with managing a difficult partnership during a critical phase in the global war
1:22.9	on terror.
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