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Appendix: List of Seminar Participants Appendix: List of Seminar Participants Below is a list of the participants at the International Seminar on 'Dilemmas of National Security and Cooperation in South Asia', in honour of Dr Justice Javid Iqbal, formerly of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, 16-17 November 1990. Dr Justice Javid Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan Professor Nasira Iqbal, Lahore, Pakistan H.E. Mr Najam-ud-Din Shaikh, Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Dr Vyacheslav Ya. Belokrinitsky, Chairman, Department of Middle East Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow Fr. Kail C. Ellis, Dean. Arts and Sciences. Villanova University Maj. Gen. lmtiaz Ali, former Military Secretary to the late Prime Minister Z. A. Bhutto, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Mr Mushahid Hussain, Islamabad, Pakistan Dr Shireen Hunter, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC Dr Saleem Qureshi and Dr Regula Qureshi. Alberta, Canada Col. James McWilliams. Freedom Eve House, Fairfax Station, Virginia Dr Arshad S. Karim, University of Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan Commander Charles J. Dale, US Navy, Office of Assistant Secretary of Defense. for International Security Affairs. Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, Country Director. India/Nepal/Sri Lanka/Bhutan, Washington, DC Michael L. Waldron, Department of the Army Maj. James W. Hertsch, Jr. Department of the Army Dr John Schultz, National War College. Washington. DC 311 312 Dilemmas of National Security and Cooperation Dr Paul Gutland, National War College, Washington, DC Lt Col. Roger Cunningham, Pentagon Col. James Corcoran, Director of Asian Studies, US Army War College Col. Donald Boose, Director, National Secmity Secretary, US Almy War College Mrs Lil Boose, Carlisle, Pennsylvania Col. Rich Crites, Pentagon Lt Col. Lawrence Velte, Pentagon Dr Thomas P. Thornton, School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC Dr Raju G.C. Thomas, Marquette University Dr Melvin Goodman, National War College. Washington, DC Dr Alvin Z. Rubinstein, University of Pennsylvania Dr Maya Chadda, William Paterson College Dr Robert Wirsing, University of South Carolina Dr Sumit Ganguly, Hunter College, New York Dr Lawrence Ziring, Western Michigan University Dr Craig Baxter, Juniata College Dr Riaz Ahmad, Detroit, Michigan Dr Sakhawat Hussain, Indus Society of North Alnerica Dr Robert LaPorte, Penn State University Professor Saroj Khanna, York College, York Dr Loretta Butler, Mount Saint Mary College, New York Dr Grace Clark, Baltimore, Maryland List qf Seminar Participants 313 Dr Naseem Sahibzada, University of the District of Columbia, Washington, DC Dr Niaz Sahibzada, Greenbelt, Maryland Dr Rashid-ud-Zaman, Glassboro State College, Glassboro, N.T Dr Russell Blackwood, Clinton College, New York Dr Zaheer Chaudhary and Mrs Shahida Chaudhary, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Mr Horace L. Kephart and Mrs Dolores Kephart, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania Mr Magdy Barsoum and Mrs Nadia Barsoum, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania Mr Haroon Chaudhri and Mrs Fauziyeh Chaudhri, Berwyn, Pennsylvania Dr Aftab-ud-Din Ahmed and Mrs Naheed Aftab-ud-Din Ahmed, Downingtown, Pennsylvania Mr Abdul Malik and Mrs Khadija Malik, West Chester, Pennsylvania DrS. M. Iqbal, New Castle, Delaware Dr Zia-ur-Khan, Akron, Ohio Mr Richard Coe and Mrs Patricia Coe, Williamstown, N.T Dr Arif Malik and Mrs Ghazala Malik, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Dr Riaz Malik and Mrs Mahjabeen Malik, Villanova, Pennsylvania Mr Amin Jan and Dr Rehana Jan, Gulph Mills, Pennsylvania Mr Lowell Sibole, The West Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Dr Sanli Khan and Dr Meher Khan, Merion, Pennsylvania Mr Lawrence Hausman and Mrs Susan Hausman, Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania Dr Helen Lafferty, Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences, Villanova University Dr Hafeez Malik, Department of Political Science, Villanova University 314 Dilem11Uls of National Security and Cooperation Dr Lynda Malik, Department of Sociology, Villanova University Dr Patrick Nolan, Department of English, Villanova University Dr Robert Langran, Department of Political Science, Villanova University Dr Priscilla Hopkirk, Department of Political Science, Villanova University Dr Jack Hopkirk, Widener University Dr John J. Schrems, Chairperson, Department of Political Science, Villanova University Dr Donald Dowd, Law SchooL Villanova University Dr Miriam Vosburgh, Department of Sociology, Villanova University Dr Thomas Kessinger, President, Haverford College and Mrs Varyam Kessinger Dr Arshad Mirza. Chairman Elect and Treasurer, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Tariq Khan, Secretary, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Dr Ghayyur K. Ghori, Joint Secretary, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Dr H. Wasiullah Khan, Member, Advisory Board, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Dr M. Jafar Shah Member, Advisory Board, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Dr Shaukat A. Shah, Member. Advisory Board, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Mohammed Zaffar, D.D.S., Member, Advisory Board, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Atta U. Arain, Indus Society of North America, Illinois M. Murtaza Arain, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Javed Bangash, Indus Society of North America, Illinois List of Seminar Participants 315 Muhammad M. Haque, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Manzoor Hussain, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Mohammad Toor, Indus Society of North America, Illinois Kamran Khan, Chicago Rashid Chaudhary, Washington, DC Index Abdullah, Dr Farooq, 166 Bovin, Aleksandr, 73 Afghan economic dependence, 91, Brezhnev, Leonid, 78, 79, 93 92,95 British Raj, 212 Afghan Shiites based in Iran, 103, 104 Bu1ganin, Nikolai A., 56 Afghanistan's foreign trade, 95 Burke, S. M., 17 A.ka1i Dal, 220, 223 Ali, Chaudhri Muhammad, 16 Carnegie Endowment for Peace, 301 Ali, Mir Laik, on secret mission to Carter Doctrine, 41, 142 Washington, 9 CENTO, 135, 258, 260 Aliyev, Geydar. 70 Central Asia, 48, 90, 92 Amedkar, B. R., 14, 15 Central Conunand, 36, 142 Amin, Hafizullah, 63 Chadda, Maya, 27, 28 Andrapov, Yuri. 70, 79 Colombo Conference ( 1954 ), 295 Arc of Crises, 41 Conceptual foundations of Pakistan, Asian Relations Conference (1974), 235 274-5 Congress Party's loss of dominant Azad, Abu! Kalam, 13 position, 219 Azeri nationalism, 105 Conventional military balance in South Aziz, Sartaj, 300 Asia, 113 Babari Mosque, 255 Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Baghdad Pact, 55; see also CENTO (ORA), 95 Baquio Conference ( 1950). 275 Deoband, Dar al-Ulam, 12 Baker, James, 148 Diego. Garcia, 141 Balanced imbalance in South Asia 49 Dulles, John Foster, 134 Bandung Conference ( 1955 ), 8. 276 Bangladesh, 3, 136, 242, 273, 277 Economic Cooperation Organization Beg, General Mirza Aslam. 177, 179, (ECO), 270 308 Ellis, Kail C., 18, 24, 25, 131 Belokrenitsky, Vyacheslav Ya.. 18, Ethnic nationalism, I 06 19,20 Ethnic religious confticts in India, Bengali nationalism, 208, 219, 273, 207 294 Bharatiya Janata Party (B.IP), 208, fundamentalist regime, 104-106 226 Bhindranwale, .larnail Singh, 223 Gandhi, Indira, 57. 221, 222, 225, Bhutto, Benazir. 44. 106, 145. 162. 263 167, 173, 175, 179. 180. 186. 221. Gandhi, Mahatma, 10, 15 264,308 Gandhi, Rajiv. 3, 20, 45. 68, 101, Bhutto, Z. A., 25. 57, 135, 136. 137. 125, 168, 173, 180,221 222 225 283 138. 139, 140, 141. 143. 242. 262, 287 294 Ganguly, Sumit, 30 316 Index 317 Gankovsky, Yuri, 86 India-Pakistan nuclear stand-off, 40 Ghazali, a!-, Abu Hamid, 244 Indo-Pakistan relations, 109 Golden Temple of Am1itsar, 223 Indo-Pakistan War (1965): Goodman, Melvin, 21, 22, 62 consequences, 36 Gorbachev, Mikhail, 20, 22, 43, 47; Indo-Soviet threat to Pakistan, 113 in India, 58, 62, 70, 71, 72, 77. 79, Indus Waters Treaty (1960), 170 82, 84, 90, 97, 101 Iqbal, Dr Justice Javid, 29, 30 Gromyko, Andrei, 63, 71 Iqbal, Muhammad, 14, 241, 249 Gulf Cooperative Council, 148 Iranian Revolution (1979), 261 Gulf Region, 41, 46 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, 4, 81, 84, Gwadar, 66, 140 145, 146 Iraq's invasion of Iran (1980), 65 Haq, Zia-ul, 25, 66, 75, 98, 106, 143, Islamic bomb, 139 145, 167, 173, 183.242,258,264, Islamic Conference Organization 269, 294, 297 (ICO), 68 Harrison, Selig, 5 Islamic fundamentalism, 106 Harshvardhana, 211.213 Islamic ideology. 235, 245, 246 Hekmatyar. Gulbuddin, 100, 103, 105, 106, 266 Jamiat-i-Islami Party, 100, 106 Hezb-i-Islami Party, 100 Jamiat ulama-i Hind, 12 Hindu fundamentalism. 186 Janata Party, 221. 277 Hindu imperialism, 232 Jatoi, Ghulam Mustafa, 295 Hindu Maha Sabha, 14 Jawaharlal Nehru's negative attitude Hindu nationalism. 222. 223 towards India-Pakistan relations, Hindu Rashtra ideology. 222, 223, 4-5; relations with USSR, 20 226 Jayewardene. J. R., 3 Hindu Vishwa Parishad, 226 .linnah, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali, Horn of Africa, 69 12. 233; political articulation. 235, Hunter. Shireen T., 30, 31 240, 241 Hussain, Mushahid, 25, 26 Junagarh's accession to Pakistan, 6 Hussain, Saddam, 225 Junejo, Mohammad Khan, 283 Indian collaboration with USSR, 3 Kahuta nuclear plant, 139 Indian Empire's ideological order, Kautilya' s political ideas, 212 212,214 Karma!, Babrak, 70 Indian Expeditionary force in Sri Kashmir conflict between India and Lanka, 154 Pakistan, ix-x. 3, 5, 36, 40, 45, 55, Indian hegemonial role, x; secularism, 76, 84; Kashmiri rebels, 99, 113; 5, 17, 39, 49, 153,222,224,255 uprising, 158-60, 166; Indian military build-up in 1990s, US-Russian positions, 162; Simla 125-6 Agreement, 165; Siachin glacier Indian military power. 111-12 negotiatiOns, 173-80; elite Indian National Congress, 10, 232 orientations in India and Pakistan, Indian naval exercises. 319 184-6; chronology
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