Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 09/2010

Flooding Challenges Pakistan's Government and the International Community

Altaf Ullah Khan, Mary Hope Schwoebel

August 2010

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

This brief is a result of interviews conducted by Altaf Ullah Khan, professor of Journalism and Mass Communications at Peshawar University and USIP consultant, in Peshawar from July 28 to August 13 about conditions and emergency operations in northwestern Pakistan. Mary Hope Schwoebel is a senior program officer at USIP who leads a cross-border dialogue initiative in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan.