Valdai Club

“When it comes to serious reform and economic growth, Pakistan has a real record of disappointing hopes”, Anatol Lieven, Professor, Georgetown University in Qatar, says. On the one hand, much will depend on the impact of China’s rapid development, but on the other, there are crucial issues of international and domestic settlement of the Afghanistan conflict. He suggests that all the major powers now agree that there must be peace, but that will require the exclusion of all foreign military involvement.