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11-12 January 2020

Alhamra Arts Council, Mall Road, Lahore DAY 1: JANUARY 11, 2020
1 2 3 GALLERY
Keynote:
International Governance and the Future of the
11:00 am to
Nation State
12:30 pm Sir Mark Lyall Grant, former UK High Commissioner
Plenary to Pakistan and lately UK National Security Advisor,
with Ahmed Rashid, Journalist
Keynote speaker sponsored by Getz Pharma
Choosing Friends: Pakistan and the Middle East Another Local Government Law? Fight for the Sky: Pakistan Air Force Post-Balakot What Just Happened? Digital Pakistan: Making It Happen!
Lt. Gen. Waheed Arshad (Retd.), former CGS; Mani Shankar Aiyar, former Union Minister India; Air Chief Marshal Kaleem Saadat (Retd.); A Guide to Post-Normal Times Mudassar Aqil, CEO Easypaisa/Telenor Microfinance Bank;
12:45 pm to Asif Durrani, former Ambassador of Pakistan to Iran; Shehzad Arbab, Advisor to the PM on Establishment; Air Commodore Kaiser Tufail (Retd.), Ziauddin Sardar, Muslim Institute, UK, Imran Ali Khan, Co-Founder/Co-CEO Zameen.com;
01:45 pm Ashraf Jahangir Qazi, former UN Special Syed Mustafa Kamal, former Mayor of Karachi, with Air Commodore Khalid Banuri (Retd.) with Aliya Iqbal Naqvi, IBA Karachi Muneeb Maayr, Co-Founder/CEO Bykea, Co-Founder Daraz;
Representative for Iraq; with Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, PILDAT Usman Gul, Co-Founder/CEO Airlift,
Barnett Rubin, NYU, USA, with Monis Rahman, CEO/Founder ROZEE.PK
with Mosharraf Zaidi, Senior Fellow, Tabadlab Chairman/Co-Founder Finja Co-Founder EasyTickets
An Academic Literary Festival

Kashmir Under Lockdown God’s Kingdom in Pakistan Is Parliament Still Relevant? Freda’s Tales from Oxford, Lahore Jail, Public Interest News in Gallery 2
HE Sardar Masood Khan, President, AJK; Farhat Haq, Monmouth College, USA; Senator Sherry Rahman, PPP; and a Buddhist Monastery the Age of Fake News Can Tourism in Punjab
Hina Rabbani Khar, former Foreign Minister, Amber Darr, Coventry University, UK; Javed Jabbar, former Senator and Federal Minister, Andrew Whitehead, Historian and formerly of the BBC, Rosie Thomas, Westminster, UK; Survive the 5th Season?
02:00 pm to
with Ejaz Haider, Indus TV Ali Usman Qasmi, LUMS, with Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, PILDAT with Moneeza Hashmi, Chairperson, Lahore Arts Council Behzad Alam Khan, Dawn Karachi; Hammad Naqi, CEO WWF;
03:00 pm
with Salman Akram Raja, Lawyer Sana Gulzar, formerly with BBC Urdu; Faisal Siddiqui, CEO Daewoo Express;
Book launch of The Lives of Freda: The Political, Spiritual Aroosa Shaukat, Journalist, Imrana Tiwana, Environmentalist and Lawyer,
Book launch of Sharia and the State in Pakistan and Personal Journeys of Freda Bedi by Andrew Whitehead with Jean Seaton, Westminster, UK with Attiya Noon, Environmentalist
by Farhat Haq
PakAf: After the Withdrawal Faiz in Urdu, Faiz in English Siyasat bazariya Virasat: Political Kinship in Pakistan Dara Shukoh: The Emperor that Never Was
Hina Rabbani Khar, former Foreign Minister; Anjum Altaf, LUMS; Stephen Lyon, AKU London; Sameen Ali, LUMS; Supriya Gandhi, Yale, USA,
03:15 pm to Barnett Rubin, New York University, USA, Syed Nomanul Haq, UMT/UPenn, USA, Ali Jan, ITU, with Mohammad Waseem, LUMS with Shahnaz Aijazuddin, Literary Critic
04:15 pm with Salman Akram Raja, Lawyer
with Najam Sethi
Book launch of Political Kinship in Pakistan: Book launch of The Emperor Who Never Was:
Descent, Marriage, and Government Stability Dara Shukoh of Mughal India by Supriya Gandhi
by Stephen M. Lyon

Taking Advice: Is Media Telling the Real Story? Is Liberal Democracy Dead? Does the EU have a Future? “An al-Haq”: Mansur Hallaj, his Poetry and Resistance Reforming Pakistan’s Bureaucracy:
Mansoor Ali Khan, Express News; Mani Shankar Aiyar, former Union Minister India; Christian Lequesne, Sciences Po, France; Carl Ernst, UNC Chapel Hill, USA, Insights from the Task Force
04:30 pm to Maria Memon, ARY News; Bruno Macaes, former Portuguese Minister; Sir Mark Lyall Grant, former UK High Commissioner with Syed Nomanul Haq, UMT/UPenn, USA Ishrat Husain, Advisor to the PM on Reforms;
05:30 pm Owais Tohid, Senior Journalist, Hina Jilani, Lawyer, to Pakistan and lately UK National Security Advisor, Umair Javed, LUMS;
with Fahd Husain, Dawn with Pervez Hoodbhoy, FC College with Andrew Whitehead, formerly of the BBC Roshaneh Zafar, Kashf Foundation;
Salman Siddique, Retired Bureaucrat,
with Saeed Shafqat, FC College
Ali Sethi Concert Prep Accountability: The Great Pakistani Passion Think Globally, Study Locally: New Media: Scope and Challenges India-Pakistan Gallery 2
Irfan Qadir, former Attorney General of Pakistan; The University in the 21st Century Najam Sethi; An Alternative History The Sacred in Heritage
05:45 pm to Ali Zafar, former SCBA President; Nicholas Dirks, former Chancellor UC Berkeley; Murtaza Solangi, Naya Daur Media; Pallavi Raghavan, Ashoka Conservation
06:45 pm Feisal Naqvi, Lawyer, Tariq Banuri, Chairman, HEC; Amber Shamsi, Samaa TV, University, India, Kamran Lashari, DG, WCLA;
with Asad Rahim Khan, Lawyer Tahir Andrabi, Dean, School of Education, LUMS; with Raza Rumi, Naya Daur Media with Yaqoob Khan Bangash Salman Beg, CEO AKCS;
Rukhsana David, Principal, Kinnaird, Nadhra Khan, LUMS,
Ali Sethi Concert Starts at 7pm. FREE ENTRY with Musadik Malik, Senator PML-N Book launch with Maliha Noorani, NCA
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11-12 January 2020

Alhamra Arts Council, Mall Road, Lahore DAY 2: JANUARY 12, 2020
1 2 3 GALLERY
Keynote:
11:00 am to The Gene Machine
12:30 pm Sir Venki Ramakrishnan, President, Royal Society,
Plenary Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, 2009,
with Natasha Anwar, AKU
Keynote speaker sponsored by Getz Pharma
Savarkar and the Origins of Hindutva Internal Democracy in Political Parties Pakistan and Its Economy: How the Poor are Excluded from Social Mobility Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters:
Janaki Bakhle, UC Berkeley, Afrasiab Khattak, former ANP Senator; Why is it Always Muddling Through? Tooba Syed, PIDE; Democracy under Inequality in Rural Pakistan
12:45 pm to with Ali Raza, LUMS Farhatullah Babar, retired Senator PPP; Hafiz Pasha, former Finance Minister of Pakistan; Ammar Rashid, PIDE; Shandana Mohmand, IDS Sussex, UK;
01:45 pm Hamid Khan, former Senior VP PTI, Miftah Ismail, former Finance Minister of Pakistan; Usama Khawar, Lawyer, S Akbar Zaidi, Columbia University, USA/IBA Karachi,
with Aasiya Riaz, PILDAT Salman Shah, former Finance Advisor to the PM, with Nadeem ul Haq, Vice Chancellor, PIDE with Ali Cheema, LUMS
with Savail Hussain, Economist
Book launch
An Academic Literary Festival

Zindagi Tamasha Hai (Film): A Curtain Raiser Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order Education: The Elusive Dream? 99 Nights in Logar: An Afghan Boy’s Adventure Kartarpur, Religious Tourism and Pakistani Identity
Sarmad Khoosat, Director; Bruno Maceas, former Portuguese Minister; Shafqat Mehmood, Federal Minister of Education; Jamil Jan Kochai, Author, USA, Saeed Shafqat, FC College;
02:00 pm to Kanwal Khoosat, Producer; Masood Khalid, former Ambassador to China, Baela Jamil, Idara-e-Taleem-o-Aagahi, with Mina Malik-Hussain, Literary Critic Ali Salman Siddique, Punjab Coordinator for
03:00 pm Arif Hassan, Lead Actor; with Khurram Hussain, Business Editor, Dawn with Mosharraf Zaidi, Senior Fellow, Tabadlab Religious Tourism;
Nirmal Bano, Screenwriter, Book launch Zain Qureshi, MP, Parliamentary Secretary Finance,
with Pir Saad Ahsanuddin, CEO, Cinepax Book launch with Maliha Noorani, NCA

Where is Pakistan Heading in the Next 10 Years?
Fawad Chaudhry, Federal Minister for Science
03:15 pm to and Technology;
04:15 pm Musadik Malik, Senator PML-N;
Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, PPP,
with Mehmal Sarfaraz, Journalist
Empire of Fear: The Jallianwala Bagh Massacre Will the Provinces Bankrupt the Centre?
Kim Wagner, Queen Mary, UK, Fiscal Devolution Post 18th Amendment
with Ammar Ali Jan, FC College Hammad Azhar, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs;
Makhdoom Hashim Jawan Bakht, Finance Minister, Punjab;
Book launch of Amritsar 1919: Taimur Jhagra, Finance Minister, KPK;
An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre Aisha Ghous Pasha, former Finance Minister, Punjab,
by Kim Wagner with Ali Cheema, LUMS
Piety, Populism and Patriotism
Afiya Shehrbano Zia, Habib University, Karachi,
with Amber Shamsi, Samaa TV
In a Pure Muslim Land:
Shi’ism between Pakistan and the Middle East
Simon Wolfgang Fuchs, Freiburg, Germany;
Ali Usman Qasmi, LUMS,
with Aliya Iqbal Naqvi, IBA Karachi
Book launch

India’s Populist Revolution Prison Diaries: After the Postcolonial The Camel Merchant of Philadelphia: Getting Even:
Sadanand Dhume, Wall Street Journal, Lessons on Economy, Politics and Accountability Nicholas Dirks, former Chancellor UC Berkeley, Stories from the Court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh Public Policies to Tackle Inequality in Asia
04:30 pm to Janaki Bakhle, UC Berkeley, Miftah Ismail, former Finance Minister of Pakistan, with S Akbar Zaidi, Columbia University, Sarbpreet Singh, Independent Scholar, USA, Farheen Ghaffar, IFC;
05:30 pm with Najam Sethi with Savail Hussain, Economist USA/IBA Karachi with F.S. Aijazuddin, Historian Asghar Zaidi, VC, GCU Lahore,
with Mustafa Talpur, Oxfam International
Book launch
Book launch
Jiss ki Lathi uss ki Bhains? Defining National Security Still the Overdeveloped State?: Empress of the Taj: In Search of Mumtaz Mahal Sufi Shrines and the Pakistani State:
The Rule of Law in Pakistan Moeed Yousuf, Special Assistant to the PM on Political Economy of Pakistan Timeri Murari, Author and Journalist, The End of Religious Pluralism
05:45 pm to Salman Akram Raja, Lawyer; National Security Division and Strategic Policy Planning, S Akbar Zaidi, Columbia, USA/IBA Karachi; with Nadhra Khan, LUMS Umber bin Ibad, FC College;
06:45 pm Babar Sattar, Lawyer; with Ejaz Haider, Indus News Rashid Amjad, Lahore School of Economics; Tahir Kamran, BNU;
Amber Darr, Lawyer and Academic, Coventry, UK, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, QAU, Book launch Hussain Ahmad Khan, GCU,
with Reema Omer, International Commission of Jurists with Ayesha Afzal, Lahore School of Economics with Zahra Shah, GCU
Book launch