07
August 2018
Past Event
Pakistan: After The Elections

Pakistan: After The Elections

Past Event
Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C. Headquarters
August 07, 2018
Pakistani girls hold Pakistani flags during a ceremony marking Pakistan's 69th Independence Day, August 14, 2016
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Pakistani girls hold Pakistani flags during a ceremony marking Pakistan's 69th Independence Day, August 14, 2016
07
August 2018
Past Event

1201 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20004

Speakers:
Dr. C. Christine Fair

Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor, Peace and Security Studies Program, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Dr. Mohammad Taqi

Assistant Professor, University of Florida

Ambassador Husain Haqqani

Senior Fellow and Director, South and Central Asia, Hudson Institute

Pakistan has spent almost half of its 70 years as a nation under military rule and the rest under a semi-authoritarian democracy. Since 2008, Pakistan has ostensibly had civilian rule with a peaceful transfer of power in 2013. Analysts are hopeful that Pakistan’s 2018 election on July 25 will continue this trend of democratization.

Elections do not make a democracy. Yet free, fair, and inclusive elections are one of the pillars of a democratic nation. Most observers and analysts, both within and outside the country, have raised concerns about the influence of Pakistan's military intelligence establishment on the July 25 general election.

On August 7, Hudson Institute's South and Central Asia Program hosted a panel to discuss Pakistan’s 2018 elections. Panelists will include Professor C. Christine Fair, Provost's Distinguished Associate Professor in the Peace and Security Studies Program at Georgetown University; Dr. Muhammad Taqi, a columnist for The Wire; and Ambassador Husain Haqqani, former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States and director of South and Central Asia at Hudson Institute.

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