PCR Project Event | Pakistan’s Elections: Free, Fair, and Safe?

The PCR Project and the South Asia Program present:  Pakistan’s Elections: Free, Fair, and Safe? LIVE FROM PAKISTAN

Pre-Election Analysis Friday, February 15, 2008 9:00-10:30AM

Post-Election Analysis Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:00-10:30AM

All eyes are on Pakistan ahead of the February 18th parliamentary elections. Pakistan’s leadership faces the challenge of holding free and fair elections, and maintaining security. The results could shape the course of the country’s politics for years to come. The PCR Project will host Pakistani political experts and activists and international observers by teleconference from Pakistan to discuss the election and its implications. We hope you will join us. Featured guests will include:

Osama Siddique, lawyer, activist and Associate Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS); Lahore, Pakistan Ijaz Shafi Gilani, President, Gallup Pakistan; Islamabad, Pakistan  Sarwar Bari, Executive Director of Free and Fair Election Network; Islamabad, Pakistan (Guest to be confirmed) Kamila Hyat, political commentator and free-lance columnist, former editor of The News International and served as co-director of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan; Lahore, Pakistan Glenn Cowan, Democracy International; invented the path-breaking methodology to prevent fraud in transitional and post-conflict elections and is advising civil society in Pakistan; Washington D.C., traveling in Pakistan

Other guests will be announced in the coming days.

Both events moderated by Rick Barton, Co-Director, PCR Project, CSIS

Limited space available. RSVP to pcrproject@csis.org, indicating which event/s you will attend.  

Center for Strategic and International Studies 4th Floor Conference Room 1800 K Street Washington D.C.