Pakistan Today: Domestic Dynamics and International Pressures

9:30-13:00: Politics and society
Chair: Christophe JAFFRELOT, CNRS/CERI-Sciences Po

– Language and education policies in Pakistan – Tariq REHMAN, Dean, School of Education, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore
– Jihadi recruits in 1990s Pakistan: An emic perspective – Amélie BLOM, IISMM/EHESS, Paris
– Turmoil in the Frontier – Mariam ABOU ZAHAB, INALCO, Paris
– Sectarian emotions vs. religious politics: Pakistan’s Islamic parties and the Defence of Pakistan Council – Dietrich REETZ, ZMO, Berlin

 
14:30-18:00: Pakistan and the world
Chair: Mariam ABOU ZAHAB, INALCO, Paris

– AfPak, ten years after – Maqsud NURI, IPRI, Islamabad
– India and Pakistan: is the relationship really moving on? – Jean-Luc RACINE, CNRS/MSH, Paris 
– The US/Pak relations on the verge of rupture? – Christophe JAFFRELOT, CNRS/CERI-Sciences Po
– China, the saviour of Pakistan? – Farah JAN, Rutgers

 
Seminar with a support of the French Embassy in Pakistan.
Scientific coordinator: Christophe JAFFRELOT, CNRS/CERI-Sciences Po