On Wednesday, February 25, Senator John Kerry and former Senator and Atlantic Council Chairman Chuck Hagel unveiled Needed: A Comprehensive U.S. Policy Towards Pakistan, the report of the Atlantic Council’s Pakistan Task Force, at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee room.  Kerry and Hagel both served as co-chairs of the Task Force.

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Media Mentions:

• Political turmoil to exacerbate Pakistan economy – AFP

• Pakistan needs urgent US help: top senator – AFP

• Appeal for Pakistan aid in US-Afghan ‘terror’ review – AFP

• Experts say Pakistan is on trajectory to failure – AP, Barry Schweid

• Afghanistan, Pakistan declare new trust in U.S. talks – Reuters, Paul Eckert

• Senator Kerry Urges Pak To Do More To Combat Terror – RTTNews

• Pakistan Needs Billions in Security Aid, U.S. Policy Leaders Say – Global Security Newswire, Diane Barnes

• Fighting the Taliban by Creating Jobs – The Washington Note, Caroline Esser

• Chaos Theory: How Pakistan was cast as a failed state – Columbia Journalism Review, Madiha R. Tahir

• Islamist terrorists pushing Pakistan towards collapse – National Post, Peter Goodspeed

• Pakistan’s extremists: The slide downhill – The Economist

• Time Is Short as U.S. Presses a Reluctant Pakistan – New York Times, Jane Perlez

• Pakistan’s Fragile Foundations – CFR, Jayshree Bajoria

• Pakistan Forbids Protests in Crackdown on Opposition – Bloomberg, Khalid Qayum and Khaleeq Ahmed

• Outside View: A strategy for AFPAK – UPI, Harlan Ullman

• Has Pakistan become the central front? – Reuters Blogs, Myra MacDonald

• Playing With Fire in Pakistan – New York Times, Editorial

• Pakistan needs ‘urgent’ help – Asia Times Online, Jim Lobe and Ali Gharib

• Pakistan’s donors urged to boost aid – Financial Times, Farhan Bokhari

• Pakistani Police Clash With Pro-Sharif Protesters – Bloomberg, Khalid Qayum

• Global Financial Crisis Fuels Pakistan Instability – Voice of America News, Gary Thomas

• Pakistan’s Sharif Vows Protest After Court Bars Him From Office – Bloomberg, Khalid Qayum and James Rupert

• West urged to give Pakistan $5bn – Al Jazeera

• Ruling plunges nuclear-armed Pakistan deeper into chaos – McClatchy, Saeed Shah

• US warns that Pakistan needs $5bn urgently to avoid collapse – Telegraph

Audio:

• Sen. Kerry Says Syria Could Help U.S. Interests – NPR [Listen to audio]

• Shuja Nawaz, Director of the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, on CBC Radio‘s As It Happens (2-26-09)
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Related Publications:

• Afghanistan Report: A Ten-Year Framework for the Future
• Saving Afghanistan: An Appeal and Plan for Urgent Action

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