IPS represented in int’l seminar ‘Challenges, Compulsions and Opportunities of Coerced States’
On behalf of IPS, the Institute’s senior research associate Ambassador (r) Tajammul Altaf participated in an international seminar titled ‘Challenges, Compulsions and Opportunities of Coerced States’ which was organized by Global Think Tank Network (GTTN) – an initiative of the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST) – at Serena Hotel, Islamabad on December 20, 2018.
The seminar was addressed as keynote speaker by Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, chairman, Joint Chiefs Staff Committee, who delivered a speech on the topic of ‘Pakistan’s Potential and Efforts in Promoting a Coercion-Free South Asia’. Alongside Ambassador (r) Altaf, the other prominent speakers present on the occasion included Dr Akram Sheikh, founding chairman, GTTN, Dr Shafiq Qadri, former member, Parliament of Canada and a senior fellow at GTTN, Gen Muhammad Masood Aslam, director & senior fellow, GTTN, Owais Ghani, director & senior fellow, GTTN, Prof Dr Xu Wenhong, senior researcher & deputy secretary general, Center for One Belt One Road, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Prof Dr Ilhan Niaz, Quaid e Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, Prof Dr Zafar Nawaz Jaspal, QAU, Islamabad, and Prof Dr Asma Shakir, National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad.
The speakers propounded pragmatic proposals and holistic strategies to confront the challenges and compulsions faced by Pakistan and other coerced states in South Asia while urging them to avail all opportunities to counter the hegemonic designs and coercive methods being used in the region by India.
