Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 03/2011

Covering and Countering Extremism in Pakistan's Developing Media

Hannah Byam, Christopher Neu

March 2011

United States Institute of Peace

Abstract

This Peace Brief summarizes the discussion from the USIP public event "Pakistan's Media: Dissecting its Coverage of Extremism, Terrorism and Pakistan-U.S. Relations." The event convened Pakistan journalists and media experts Wajahat Ali, Imtiaz Ali and Zahid Hussein on December 6, 2010.