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Cspan2. Pakistans ambassador to the United States sat down for a conversation with at the carnegie do you mean to for International Peace regarding u. S. Pakistan relations. This is about 90 minutes. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Carnegie Endowment. Im a Vice President for studies here at the endowment. Its my pleasure to welcome you this morning for a discussion with pakistans relatively new ambassador to the United States dr. Majet khan. While i arrives in ambassadorial position here in january has long and deep experience, both in washington and working on u. S. Issues back in the minorsy in islamabad. And then most recently was serving as ambassador to japan before coming here. S ....
One works for the United Nations in rome. And the other two are study iin at prestigious universities in the u. S. And i know their grades are high. Because their parents inspect their report cards on a regular basis. We are honored to welcome ambassador to the podium in washington, d. C. As a friend of the United States of america. A respected diplomat in the global community. He is here as part of our ambassador series. We are also honored to welcome another distinguished pakistani. Dr. Mahidi, our discus sant for this evening. Dr. Alfaz is a nonresident fellow at the brook igs institute where he researches the development of security and political economy in pakistan. Ly tell ambassador jilani and dr. Alfaz that you have to want, a great opportunity, an opportunity to share your knowledge and your perspectives with an educated, informed audience that were pleased to see inc ....
Pakistan has taken to promote education in the countries and the country and also, reforms of the system. Pakistan u. S. Relations is one of the most important relationships for my country. Of the most relationships for my country. It is a unique relationship which has seen many ups and downs. Since 1947, we have been part of every initiative the United States of america had taken, not only in our own region but also globally. I have been we talk about the ups and downs in this relationship, i have no doubt that the current phase is certainly one of partnership and building convergences. In the past several years, we have had our respective shares of complaints against each other. Certainly, we have realized that we need to end the past and look to the future. And with this in mind, we have opened a new chapter in our relationship between pakistan and the United States of ameri ....
If however the first round of the election is inconclusive and we find ourselves watching a prolonged second round of the afghan president ial election with the bsa and the sofa continuing to remain unsung then it will have a much greater impact both in the shortterm on our deployments, our posture in helmand and our drawdown and it no longer term on what nato is able to do even assuming esa does eventually get there. You have it all mapped out. Is there any evidence perhaps, any evidence on their side they have actually got an outline plan of what they require and that they have started planning so they could execute a quite quickly . Ess bsa . It will come under bilateral Security Agreement. And the status of forces too actually. Will it come under both of those things and we are still on the elections and i wonder what other prospects in your mind of the elections being free and fair and are they or will they be properly ob ....