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Javed Jabbar book launch in Los Angeles
"Pakistan: Unique Origins, Unique Destiny"

November 2011

Javed Jabbar is chairman and chief executive, JJ Media (Pvt.) Ltd. in Karachi, Pakistan. A former senator and federal minister of Pakistan, he takes an active interest in a variety of fields including international affairs, volunteer work for rural and urban development, the environment, social issues, and mass media.

 (left to right) Dr. Asad Abidi, Javed Jabbar, Salim Adaya, CG Riffat Masood, Christian Troy

While maintaining his association with international affairs and Track II diplomacy, he also serves pro bono as global Vice President, IUCN, of the world's largest and oldest environmental organization.

He has served as Federal Minister in 3 Cabinets, Adviser to General Pervez Musharraf, Personal Representative of Benazir Bhutto at the UN, and is a current Member of the Democracy Assessment Group and Civil-Military Dialogue Group in Islamabad.  Since 1992 Jabbar has served as a member of the longest-running Pakistan-India track-II process known as the Neemrana Dialogue. 

(left to right) Durainaz Farooqui, Fatima Sultan, Javed Jabbar, Hina Abidi, Samiya Khan

USC  with Mona Hamdani, Javed Jabbar, organizer Razina Tarr, and students

(left to right) Samiya Khan, Adnan Khan, Dr. Farooqui, Dr. Farhana Mohamed

Jabbar is the author of several books including his most recent work,Pakistan: Unique Origins, Unique Destiny (National Book Foundation, 2011).

Read more about his books here.

(left to right) Fatima Sultan, Christian Troy, Javed Jabbar, Shabnam Jabbar, Muneeba Siddiqui, Zoya Sattar, Anila Ali

In November 2011 Javed Jabbar visited Southern California and held a Public Forum at The Mark Taper Auditorium in Los Angeles.

 as well as giving talks at institutions including USC and UCI.

Click here to watch his talk "Darkness Before Dawn? The Future of Pakistan" at the 2011 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference