Highlights: Pakistan, the Eye of the Storm

Recorded on September 15, 2009

Run-ins with India over allegations of terrorism, the offensive against the Taliban on its Afghan border and the fatal return of Benazir Bhutto are recent chapters in Pakistan turbulent history.
Owen Bennett-Jones, the BBCs Pakistan correspondent between 1998 and 2001, will be at the Frontline Club to discuss these latest episodes in the light of the countrys troubled beginning and the key events of its 60-year history.
The presenter of Newshour and The Interview on the BBC World Service will be discussing the roots of Pakistans turmoil and new material in his recently updated book Pakistan: Eye of the Storm the head of the BBCs Urdu Service, Aamer Ahmed Khan and Aamir Ghauri, a London-based journalist of Pakistani origin who has worked in senior roles at Dunya TV, an embryonic news channel in Pakistan and the countrys most-watched news channel Geo TV.
At a time when Pakistan is so central to global concerns about terrorism and Islamic fundamentalism, join us to discuss the prospects of stability, which is both vital and yet so difficult to achieve in such a religiously, ethnically and politically divided country.

With Justin Webb, presenter of BBC Radio 4's Today

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Pakistan
• terrorism
• taliban
• Afghanistan

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Islamic Terror made in Pakistan.

Islamic Terror has been in making in Pakistan for past 30 years and is used by ISI and Pakistan Army againt India for many years and it is also exported all over the world.

IWhy Pakistani Islamic Terror is exported and used in U.K, India, U.S and other parts of the world.?

Why Pakistan is world centre of Islamic Terror and Jihad.?

Why Pakistan army leaders call Islamic Terror and Jihadi groups as important Strategic Assets.?