Historical Letters of President Najibullah and Dr. M. Hassan Kakar, A Collection of Essays

A conversation with contributors of the book — Dr. Barnett Rubin, Senior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, New York University and a leading expert on Afghanistan and South Asia; Mr. Jawan Shir Rasikh, Editor of the book and doctoral student in South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Radha Kumar, writer and policy analyst, and former Director General, Delhi Policy Group;  Mr. Afrasiab Khattak, former Senator and former Head of the Independent Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and Mr. Jawed Ludin, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Pakistan, and member Heart of Asia Society. 

Moderator: Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, former Algerian Foreign Minister and Algerian United Nations Diplomat who served as United Nations Special Envoy to Afghanistan from July 1997-October 1999
 
Discussion based a new volume of essays edited by Jawan Shir Rasikh (Kakar History Foundation & Heart of Asia Society, 2021). In the correspondence, exchanged in 1990, Najibullah and Kakar speak candidly about the hopes and desires of the Afghan people for peace, about plans to bring peace to their country, and about the national and regional-global actors, factors, and obstacles concerning the states of war and peace then in post-Soviet Afghanistan. The contributors to this volume, all established and emerging Afghan and international scholars, offer critical analyses of the correspondence, and fresh perspectives on historical and political themes related to the past and current peace-making processes and efforts.