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PAC Conference on USA, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kashmir, India in Washington DC
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By SYED ADEEB
PAC President Dr. Muhammad Akram
M. Akram, K. Ashraf, Faisal Qazi and Friends
(InformPress.com) – Pakistani American Congress (PAC) – an association of eminent Pakistani-American professionals based in New Jersey, USA – organized the following three events to inform the U.S. Government officials – especially the Obama-Biden Administration, U.S. State Department officials and Members of the U.S. Congress – about concerns and recommendations of PAC regarding the current crises in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Indian Occupied Kashmir; to urge U.S. President Barack Hussein Obama to set a timetable for withdrawal of all US-NATO-ISAF armed forces from Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2009; to find practicable solutions for resolving the Kashmir conflict and stopping the ongoing wars, military operations and U.S. illegal drone-missile-bomb attacks on Pakistan and Afghanistan; to discuss various roles, needs and demands of Pakistani-Americans; and to celebrate the 62-year-old friendship between Americans and Pakistanis:
PAKISTANI AMERICAN CONGRESS (PAC)
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PAC US-Pakistan (17th) Friendship Day at the Capitol Hill
(1) PAC CONFERENCE 1:
Day & Date: Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Time: 7 pm – 10 pm
Washington DC, USA
Speakers:
1. Mr. Stephen C. Shannon – Virginia State Delegate, VA Attorney General (candidate 2009) and Attorney at Law. – www.shannon2009.com
2. Mr. John Chapman Petersen – Virginia State Senator and Attorney at Law. – www.fairfaxsenator.com
3. Mr. Muhammad Aslam Khan – Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Pakistan, Washington DC.
4. Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Executive Director, Kashmiri American Council.
5. Dr. Hafeez Malik – Co-Founder of PAC. Professor of Political Science, Villanova University.
6. Mr. Shuja Nawaz – South Asia Director, Atlantic Council.
7. Dr. Muhammad Akram, PAC President.
8. Dr. Khawaja Ashraf, former PAC President.
9. Dr. Ashraf M. Abbasi, former PAC President.
10. Mr. M. Mohsen Bashir – Executive Director, Human Rights Justice Forum.
11. Mr. Syed Adeeb – Chief Editor of the Information Press – www.InformPress.com
(2) PAC CONFERENCE 2:
Day & Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Time: 11 am – 3 pm
Washington DC, USA
Speakers:
1. Mr. Paul W. Jones – Deputy to the Special Representative and U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan and Pakistan.
2. Ms. Nicole Shampaine – Director of the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of Near East Affairs, Office for Egypt and the Levant.
3. Ms. Wendy J. Chamberlin – President, Middle East Institute.
4. Dr. Stephen P. Cohen – Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution.
5. Dr. Marvin G. Weinbaum – Scholar-in-Residence, Middle East Institute.
6. Dr. Rodney Jones – Program Officer, United States Institute of Peace.
7. Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Executive Director, Kashmiri American Council.
8. Mr. Nasim H. Ansari, County Commissioner, Board of Commissioners, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
9. Dr. Muhammad Akram, PAC President.
10. Dr. Khawaja Ashraf, former PAC President.
11. Dr. Ashraf M. Abbasi, former PAC President.
12. Mr. Tariq Khan, PAC President-Elect.
(3) PAC CONGRESSIONAL RECEPTION:
Day & Date: Wednesday, 24 June 2009
Time: 4 pm – 7 pm
Room B-354, Rayburn House Office Building,
Capitol Hill, Washington DC, USA
Speakers:
1. U.S. Congresswoman Allyson Y. Schwartz (D-PA)
2. U.S. Congressman Jim Moran (D-VA)
3. U.S. Congressman Rush D. Holt (D-NJ)
4. U.S. Congressman Christopher P. Carney (D-PA)
5. U.S. Congressman Dan Burton (R-IN)
6. U.S. Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI)
7. U.S. Senator Thomas R. Carper (D-DE)
8. Mr. Husain Haqqani – Pakistan’s Ambassador to the USA.
9. Mrs. Fauzia Kasuri – Vice President (Women Wing), Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) – www.insaf.pk
10. Dr. Muhammad Akram, PAC President.
11. Dr. Khawaja Ashraf, former PAC President.
12. Mr. Syed Adeeb – Chief Executive, Adeeb Media – www.AdeebMedia.com
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