Dr. Hassan Abbas is the author of “Pakistan’s drift into extremism: Allah, The Army and America’s War on Terror”, he comes on TPE for a detailed discussion on Afghanistan, Taliban, the TTP, Pakistan's foreign policy, USA and Politics in Pakistan.

Dr. Hassan Abbas is a Distinguished Professor of International Relations at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies (NESA Center) in Washington, D.C. He also serves as a senior advisor at Project on Shi’ism and Global Affairs at Harvard University’s Divinity school; and a non-resident scholar with Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, a think tank focusing on research and education about American Muslims to support well-informed dialogue and decision making; and as a trustee of American Institute of Pakistan Studies (AIPS) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His current research work focuses on building narratives for countering political and religious extremism and rule of law reforms in developing states.

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

2:20 Understanding the Taliban

8:00 Anti-Shia hatred in the Taliban

13:30 Mainstreaming Extremism and Taliban 3.0

21:50 General Pervez Musharraf

28:00 What to do with the Taliban?

45:00 Institutional Degradation amd TTP

57:18 NAB Story

1:00:00 Politics and Bureaucracy

1:09:30 How to fix Pakistan

1:17:00 Was Jinnah a staunch constitutionalist?

1:22:00 Was Benazir the mother of the Taliban?

1:23:00 Audience Questions