Islamabad holds seminar today to explore security challenges

The Center for Pakistan and Gulf Studies (CPGS), a newly set up premier international think tank, is holding its inaugural seminar on ‘Innovating Pakistan-Gulf Relations’ at Marriott Hotel in Islamabad today.
This seminar being attended by leading politicians, scholars, international energy experts, seasoned diplomats and serving and retired senior civilian and military leadership from various countries is to deliberate upon vital contemporary and emerging traditional and non-traditional security challenges faced by Pakistan, Gulf region and the world at large.
The day-long international seminar will involve formal launch of CPGS monograph series, which encapsulate a diverse range of important issues ranging from ‘Pak-Gulf Relations: Past, Present and Future,’ ‘The Emerging Dynamics of Energy Security of the Gulf Region,’ ‘Peaceful uses of Nuclear Technology,’ and ‘Afghanistan Sans Foreign Troops and Options for Pakistan.’
Its newly developed website will also be launched on this occasion, which provides latest and comprehensive information on both Pakistan and Gulf states related to a wide variety of topics ranging from trade, security, energy, employment, strategic issues, foreign policy and various other areas. The key-note address on this occasion will be delivered by Qamar Zaman Kaira, federal minister for information and broadcasting.
Among the leading security experts who will speak on this occasion will include Gen (Retd.) Ehsan-ul-Haq, former chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee who is also the chairman, CPGS Advisory Board; Maj Gen. (Retd.) Dr. Anwar bin Majed bin Anwar Eshki, chairman, Middle East Institute for Strategic and Legal Studies; Lt. Gen (Retd.) Agha Muhammad Umar Farooq; former president, National Defense University; Mr. Faheem Al-Hamid, assistant editor in chief, Okaz group of newspapers, Jeddah; Prof. Dr. Pervez Iqbal Cheema, dean FCS, National Defense University; Mr. Tarek Mishkhes, editor in chief, Urdu News, Jeddah; Ambassador Arif Kamal, Tahir Sher Muhammad and Air Commodore (Retd.) Khalid Iqbal.
CPGS aims to be a leading think tank, toward providing creative ideas, dynamic solutions and realistic and timely policy input to the decision makers in order to promote a prosperous, peaceful and stable region and a secure inter-dependent world on the basis of common interests between Pakistan and its friendly Gulf states, with strong bonds based on common history, cultural, faith, mutual respect and understanding, through relevant, substantive and timely intellectual discourse.