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Husain Haqqani
Husain Haqqani is Director of the Center for International Relations and Associate Professor of International Relations at Boston University College of Arts and Sciences. Ambassador Haqqani has a wide range of experience as a journalist and diplomat, serving as advisor to three Pakistani Prime Ministers. From 1992 to 1993 he was Pakistan’s ambassador to Sri Lanka. He came to the U.S. in 2002 as a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, D.C., and an adjunct professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Born in Karachi, Pakistan, he earned his B.A. and M.A. in International Relations at the University of Karachi. His journalism career started with work as East Asian correspondent for Arabia — The Islamic World Review during the turbulent years following the Iranian revolution. He wrote extensively on Muslims in China and East Asia and Islamic political movements. Later, as Pakistan and Afghanistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, he covered the war in Afghanistan and acquired a deep understanding of militant Islamist Jihadi groups. He has also written and spoken extensively on U.S. relations with the Muslim world, contributed to numerous international publications, and regularly comments on Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Islamic politics and extremism on radio and television network news programs.