[OPIRG-EVENTS] SAP Canada Presents: Post-Election Pakistan: New Risks, Challenges and Opportunities

[P Moore <pmoore26@yahoo.com>]

South Asia Partnership Canada
Invites you to a post-election seminar on 
 
Pakistan: New Risks, Challenges and Opportunities 

Thursday, November 21, 2002, 2 PM to 4:30 PM

National Press Club of Canada, Dining Room, Booth
Building, 165 Sparks Street, Ottawa, Ontario
 
While General Pervez Musharraf envisioned a secular
Pakistan, his support to the United States for the
"war on terror" sparked the rise of Islamic parties
who gained an unprecedented 60 seats in the October
2002 elections. This seminar will address the rise of
Islamic fundamentalism and militarism and its impact
on the lives of ordinary Pakistanis.  

South Asia Partnership Pakistan, which receives
funding in part from the Canadian International
Development Agency, has a network of over 2,000
community-based organizations involved in political
education for a democratic society that respects human
rights and gender equity. This seminar will examine
new risks, challenges and opportunities for Pakistanis
as well as Canadians in post-election Pakistan.    

Speakers:

Mr. Mohammed Tahseen
Executive Director 
South Asia Partnership Pakistan
 
Mr. Irfan Mufti
Senior Program Manager
South Asia Partnership Pakistan 

Dr. Qurat ul-Ain Bukhtiari
Institute of Development Services and Practices

Dr. Bukhtairi is renowned for her 25 years of work in
community-based development. Highlights of her career
include founding 1,500 informal schools for girls in
tribal Balochistan, in western Pakistan, and working
with the homeless in the Orangi Pilot Project in
Karachi. She is a member of SAP Pakistan's Board of
Directors.

For more information and RSVP please contact:
Neena Sachdeva, Program Manager Pakistan, SAP Canada
Phone: (613) 241-1333 ext 227, Fax (613) 241-1129 
Email: sap@sapcanada.org  Web Site: www.sapcanada.org 

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