Najam Chairs Panel on British Diplomacy in Pakistan
On April 7, 2021, Adil Najam, Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, chaired panel on British diplomacy in Pakistan at Harvard University’s Mittal South Asia Center.
The webinar, titled “The History of British Diplomacy in Pakistan,” featured Ian Talbot, Director of the Centre for Imperial and Postcolonial Studies, University of Southampton, as well as discussants Mohammad Waseem, Professor of Political Science at Department of Social Sciences, Lahore University of Management Sciences, and William Milam, Former Ambassador to Pakistan and Bangladesh, United States Department of State.
The panel discussed the development of British diplomatic efforts in Pakistan from 1947 through the “War on Terror,” as chronicled in Talbot’s new book.
Details of the event can be found on the Mittal South Asia Center’s website.
Adil Najam is a global public policy expert who also served as the Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. He is the Inaugural Dean of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University and was the former Vice Chancellor of the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS). His research focuses on issues of global public policy, especially those related to global climate change, South Asia, Muslim countries, environment and development, and human development. Read more about Dean Najam on his faculty profile.