Session on   "The Current State of India-Pakistan Relations”
EVENT DETAILS
DATE		Thursday, December 7, 2017
TIME		3:30 PM  - 5:00 PM (Registration : 03:00 PM )
LOCATION		WWF Auditorium, 172 B, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi-110003
SPEAKER		Mr. Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan
CHAIR		Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar, Former Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, India
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SPEAKER
Mr. Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, Former Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri hails from an illustrious political family of Pakistan. He was educated at the Universities of Punjab, Cambridge, and Oxford, and was called to the Bar from Gray's Inn, London. Former Foreign Minister Mahmud Kasuri served as Pakistan Foreign Minister from 2002-07. He assumed office in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 when Pakistan faced many challenges. Khurshid Kasuri is Pakistan's Tahreek-e-Insaf's (PTI) Senior Advisor on Political and International Affairs and Chairman of its Task Force on Kashmir, and a member of a Party's Core Committee. He is the author of the Book " Neither a Hawk Nor a Dove" which also gives  an Insider's Account of Pakistan's foreign relations during that period.
CHAIR
Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar, Former Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas, India  Mani Shankar Aiyar was born in Lahore on 10 April 1941. He was posted as India’s first-ever Consul-General to Karachi in December 1978 and stayed there till January 1982. From then began his life-long interest, amounting even to obsession, with Pakistan. He has visited the country about 35 times in the last 35 years. He published his “Pakistan Papers” in 1994 and has been frequently commenting in numerous journals on India-Pakistan relations, besides delivering lectures on the subject, both in India and in Pakistan. He spoke often on India-Pakistan issues during his several terms in Parliament (1991-2016). As Union Minister of Petroleum and Natural Gas (2004-06), he sought to push for the Iran-Pakistan-India natural gas pipeline that he still believes is the most effective guarantee of India’s energy security requirements.