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Acknowledgements
While this book is my personal effort and responsibility, it would not have been possible without the wisdom and information from many in Europe, Pakistan, Afghanistan and the United States over the past decade. Some cannot be identified, because of the nature of their assistance and our personal relationships, especially the many military, civil and police officers, of all ranks, and politicians who helped me understand from the ground up the complex reality of Pakistan today and its relations with the US over 2008–19.
Among those that I want to mention are the many who agreed to being interviewed, mostly on the record, or provided key documentation and shared their notes and thoughts over the past decade. My special thanks go to them and others who helped me better understand Washington, London, Islamabad, Rawalpindi and the turbulent region where Pakistan resides.
I am grateful to Fred Kempe, president and CEO of the Atlantic Council, for inviting me to participate in the Pakistan Task Force of 2008 and then entrusting me with the launch of the South Asia Center in January 2009. I must acknowledge my many talented colleagues at the South Asia Center, the wider Atlantic Council, and fellow think-tankers in Washington DC and Islamabad for their input and advice. Fred supported our small but energetic team’s efforts towards Waging Peace in the Greater South Asia region and fostered our search for solutions to the region’s problems and improvements in the shaping of US and Pakistani policies.
In Pakistan, I wish to thank in particular former President Pervez Musharraf, four other army chiefs—Generals Jehangir Karamat, Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, Raheel Sharif and Qamar Javed Bajwa—Ishrat Husain, Hina Rabbani Khar, Sartaj Aziz, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Aitzaz Ahsan, Rehman Malik, Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Shehbaz Sharif, Imran Khan, Asad Umar, Aftab Sultan, Ihsan Ghani, Tariq Parvez, Lt. Gen. Masood Aslam, Lt. Gen. Naveed Mukhtar, Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, Lt. Gen. Zahir-ul-Islam, Lt. Gen. Nasser Khan Janjua, Lt. Gen. Ishfaq Nadeem, Lt. Gen. Tariq Khan, Lt. Gen. Hidayat ur Rahman, Lt. Gen. Naweed Zaman, Brig. Moghisuddin, Maj. Gen. Sahibzada Isfandiyar Ali Khan Pataudi, Maj. Gen. Ahmed Mahmood Hayat, Maj. Gen. Niaz Khokhar, Ahsan Iqbal, Tariq Fatemi, Governor Owais Ghani, Wajahat S. Khan, Saba Imtiaz, Raashid Wali Janjua, Babar Sattar, Cyril Almeida, Lt. Gen. Agha Umer Farooq, Omar Shahid Hamid, the Lahore Study Group, Lt. Gen. Tariq Waseem Ghazi, Lt. Gen. Asif Yasin Malik, Lt. Gen. Naeem Khalid Lodhi, Nargis Sethi, A. Wajid Rana, Nadeem ul Haque, Khaled Ahmed, Amb. Mahmud Ali Durrani, Lt. Gen. Javed Iqbal, Owais Tohid, Maj. Gen. Syed Ali Hamid, Brig. (now Maj. Gen.) Ch. Sarfraz Ali, Maj. Gen. Khawar Hanif, Brig. (later Lt. Gen.) Nazir Butt, Senator Mushahid Hussain, Amb. Riaz Mohammed Khan, Amb. Salman Bashir, Amb. Tehmina Janjua, Amb. Jalil Abbas Jilani, Amb. Aizaz Ahmed Chaudhry and President Asif Ali Zardari. All have helped me understand and capture the essence of Pakistan today and the challenges it faces.
In the United States and Europe, I benefited from the advice and knowledge of Secretaries George Shultz and William Perry, Andrew Wilder, Moeed Yusuf, Dan Markey, Alex Thier, Greg Gottlieb, Amb. Doug Lute, Gen. James Jones, Gen. David Petraeus, Gen. Stan McChrystal, Gen. James Mattis, Gen. John Allen, Amb. Robin Raphel, Lt. Col. Eliot Evans, Lt. Col. Tom Lynch, Amb. Rick Olson, Amb. Cameron Munter, Amb. Dan Feldman, Jasmeet Ahuja, Jonah Blank, Alan Kronstadt, Nancy Birdsall, Masood Ahmed, David Ignatius, Peter Lavoy, Bruce Riedel, Khalid Ikram, Ali Jafri, Amb. Anne Patterson, Amb. Gerald Feierstein, Vice Admiral Mike LeFever, Amb. Husain Haqqani, Mansoor Ijaz, Amb. Marc Grossman, Kevin Hulbert, Eric Schmitt, Marc Ambinder, Shamila Chaudhary, Tamanna Salikuddin, Eric Lebson, Phillip Reiner, Robert Grenier, Duane Evans, Damian Murphy, Peter Bergen, Larry Sampler, Vali Nasr, Alexander Evans, Amb. Sir Adam Thomson, the analysts at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom and the German BND, Jeff Lightfoot, Joseph Syder, Tom Sanderson, David Sedney and Ashraf Ghani (later president of Afghanistan). My childhood friend Shahid Yusuf read the first rambling draft and guided me into trimming it from ‘three books’ into one cohesive volume.
I especially want to thank my friend and mentor, the late Arnaud de Borchgrave, whom I had admired for decades from afar as a dashing foreign correspondent, but who entered my professional life late by taking a chance and bringing me into the world of think tanks in 2008. He entrusted me with the lead role in producing our CSIS report on FATA for the incoming CENTCOM commander Gen. Petraeus in 2009. Arnaud was always ready to inject a dose of reality, notably by accusing me of being a perennial optimist and reminding me that ‘a pessimist is an optimist with experience’!
Thank you to Paul Werdel, our talented son-in-law for the superb photographs of the author and for his astute editorial suggestions. And a big thanks to my super agent, Priya Doraswamy of Lotus Lane Literary Agency, and Milee Ashwarya, who heads Penguin Random House India, her colleagues Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri, Mriga Maithel and Peter Modoli, who helped transmute my manuscript into an accessible book.
Finally, I must thank my wife, Seema, and our daughters, Zaynab, Amna and Zahra, who have been my anchors in this turbulent world, with their love, understanding and advice. All of them are the best sounding board for my ideas and simultaneously the most trenchant critics and cheerleaders of my work, both poetry and prose.
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