A national-level seminar on “Pak-US Relations–a Fresh Approach” was held under PINA. The speakers urged that people-to-people relations should be strengthened, academic chairs on Pakistan set up at US universities, Pak-US Friendship Association revived in addition to initiating state-level linkages through Congress houses. The speakers analysed causes of the current tension between the US and Pakistan.
Speakers and participants included scholars, professors of universities, journalists, senior retired defence officers, intellectuals and politicians from various cities, as also from the UK and US. Altaf Qureshi, President Pakistani American Congress (PAC), Lt Gen (r) Khalid Latif Mughal, former ambassador Javed Hussain, Qayyum Nizami, Prof Shabbir Ahmad Khan and Gen (r) Ziauddin Butt spoke on the occasion.
