delivery program that caters to public needs.
In India, participants noted that the space for peacemakers willing to engage with Pakistan was shrinking, and this was a function of domestic politics in New Delhi. Pakistan and India once again seemed to have run into an impasse, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s policy towards Pakistan was increasingly shaped by domestic priorities at home.
While the US was in the process of withdrawing from Afghanistan, it was seen that policymakers in Washington had tempered the pace of this withdrawal so that an unplanned drawdown may not bring about domestic electoral backlash, nor trigger alarm and chaos in Kabul. It was also noted that in the coming months, US assistance to Pakistan was likely to be much more strategic, to ensure prosperity on top of survival.
Participants of the roundtable reviewed the report’s key findings on foreign policy, violent extremism, regional interconnectivity and internal governance reform.
It was attended by senior diplomats and policymakers including former Foreign Secretaries Ambassador Riaz Khokhar, Ambassador Salman Bashir, Lt. General Talat Masood, former DG ISPR Maj. General Athar Abbas, senior journalist M. Ziauddin, international legal expert Ahmer Bilal Soofi, Imtiaz Gul and Mosharraf Zaidi. Members of the TCF Working Group present included former US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Tom Pickering, former US Ambassador to Pakistan Cameron Munter, former Turkish Foreign Minister Hikmat Çetin, Ambassador Ann Wilkens, and Neil Bhatiya.
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