Tahmina Daultana and Pakistan

With our international attention now focused on Pakistan, here is a re-post of an interview with Pakistani Member of Parliament Tahmina Daultana. We spoke to Tahmina at the “World Forum on the Future of Democracy” in Williamsburg, Va., September 2007. She talks about the prospects for democracy in Pakistan.

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"If you talk to them, you can handle them"

The debate sparked by Columbia University’s announcement of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s upcoming campus speaking engagement underlines Pakistani parliament member Tahmina Daultana’s recent comment about terrorists. At the 2007 World Forum on the Future of Democracy, she said "If you kill one, ten more appear; if you talk to them, you can handle them. "

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