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MN: Keith Ellison Lunch Reception
WHAT: CPR PAC Lunch Reception for Congressman Keith Ellison
WHEN: Saturday, June 26, 2010 – 12:30pm
WHERE: Minnetonka, MN (address will be sent via email to confirmed guests)
CLICK HERE TO RSVP or email mahera@pakistanrealations.org
CPR would like to thank Dr. Zaheer Aslam and Dr. Nausheen Mazhar for their role in helping to organize this important event. CPR would also like to acknowledge the following members of the host committee for their support: Moeen Masood and Shehla Alvi, Irfan and Tabinda Altafullah, Sikandar and Bushra Dar, Valeed Shaikh and Sabeena Khan, Akhtar and Yasmeen Choudhary.
CPR MEETS WITH CONGRESS
CONTACT: Mahera Rahman
June 12, 2010 mahera@pakistanrelations.org
Last week, the Council on Pakistan Relations met with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Congressman Mike McMahon (D-NY) to discuss U.S.-Pakistan relations. During the meeting with Congressman Senator Lugar’s staff, CPR (more…)
COUNCIL CALLS ON SECRETARY CLINTON NOT TO THREATEN PAKISTAN
In the wake of the recent attempted Times Square attack, the Council on Pakistan Relations has called on Secretary Clinton to moderate her rhetoric towards Pakistan in order to rebuild trust and cooperation between the two nations. (more…)
CPR MEETS WITH SENATOR UDALL’S OFFICE
The Council on Pakistan Relations met last week with the office of Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) to discuss his recent visit to Pakistan and ways in which CPR and his office can work together to strengthen U.S.-Pakistan relations. (more…)
CPR MEETS WITH THE OFFICE OF CONGRESSMAN DAVID PRICE
The Council on Pakistan Relations recently met with the office of Congressman David Price (D-NC) to discuss U.S.-Pakistan relations and what steps the U.S. can take to improve its image in Pakistan. (more…)
CPR MEETS WITH CONGRESSMAN ROBERT WHITTMAN
The Council on Pakistan Relations met last week with Congressman Robert Whittman (R-VA) to discuss U.S.-Pakistan relations and the importance of the U.S. taking a regional approach to South Asia that includes India. (more…)
CPR Quoted – Community concerns : Pakistani Muslims based in the US have to ‘fight an image’, and the (failed) Time Square bombing episode has only aggravated matters
http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/may2010-weekly/nos-23-05-2010/spr.htm#7
“I haven’t done anything wrong but still I feel hesitant and even ashamed sometimes to tell the people around that I am Pakistani. That is all because of Faisal Shahzad,” laments Muhammad Nasir, 45, Pakistani American living in New York. (more…)
Pakistan and Times Sq. By Nicholas D. Kristof
If we want Times Square to be safer from terrorists, we need to start by helping make Pakistan safer as well. People with links to Pakistan have been behind a hugely disproportionate share of international terror incidents over the last two decades: the 1993 and 2001 World Trade Center attacks; Richard Reid’s failed shoe bombing in…
CPR MEETS WITH THE OFFICE OF SENATOR BAUCUS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 18, 2010 CONTACT: Mahera Rahman mahera@pakistanrelations.org
The Council on Pakistan Relations met with the office of Senator Max Baucus to discuss the importance of increasing trade relations between the U.S. and Pakistan and other issues.
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