DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES 2014
The Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad cordially invites you to the launch of the book
The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam
(Brookings Institution Press, 2013)
and a
Public Talk
on the related theme
“The Thistle and the Drone: Relations Between the Center and the Provinces”
Author / Speaker
Professor Akbar S. Ahmed,
Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies, American University,
Washington DC & Nonresident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
His Excellency Mr. Sartaj Aziz,
Advisor to the Prime Minister on National Security &
Foreign Affairs has kindly consented to Chair the Talk
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
at 1500 hrs