Ambassador Husain Haqqani and Heinz Journal Talk Pakistan-U.S. Relations

Release Date: Feb 23, 2009

During his recent visit to Carnegie Mellon’s Heinz College, the Heinz Journal had an opportunity to sit down with Husain Haqqani, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, to discuss the complex subject of Pakistan-U.S. relations, including the status of democratic reform by Pakistan’s post-military government, economic development, educational equity, and the challenge of fighting terrorism. 

The interview is the first in the Heinz Journal Policy Leaders series, which will feature conversations with individuals and organizations making policy – and news – in arts and culture, economic development, education, environment, health, international affairs and technology.

Listen to the full interview by Heinz Journal editor Amy Gergely.

Husain Haqqani was appointed Pakistan’s Ambassador to the U.S. in April 2008 by Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani. As Ambassador, Haqqani is the Prime Minister’s representative in the United States and he is responsible for managing the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and Pakistani governments. A trusted advisor of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, Ambassador Haqqani is a Professor at Boston University and former Director of the Center for International Relations. He serves as the Co-Chair of the Hudson Institute’s Project on the Future of the Muslim World as well as editor of the journal Current Trends in Islamist Thought, published from Washington, DC.

Ambassador Haqqani is a leading journalist, diplomat, and scholar. He came to the U.S. in 2002 as a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC, and an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He served as an advisor to Pakistani Prime Ministers Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, Nawaz Sharif, and Benazir Bhutto. From 1992 to 1993 he was Pakistan’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka.

The Heinz Journal would like to thank Dr. Silvia Borzutzky, Heinz College Professor of Political Science and International Relations; Dr. Bernard I. Finel, Senior Fellow at the American Security Project; Myriam Chandna, Madiha Tariq and Zafar Imran for their assistance on this project.

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