1. Sikandar Hayat, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad
"Jinnah, Charisma and State Formation in Pakistan"

2. Chad Haines, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
"Remapping Pakistan's Liminal Geo-Body along the Silk Route"

3. Richard Barnett, University of Virginia,
"Ripping Yarns and Rippling Dunes: State Building in Early Modern Cholistan"

4. Amina Yaqin, SOAS, University of London
"What is Pakistani Culture?"

5. Saadia Toor, Cornell University
A Poet, a Nation, a State: Religion, Culture, and State-Formation in Pakistan (1947-71) 

Discussant: Aslam Syed, University of Pennsylvania.

1. Tayyab Mahmud, CSU, Ohio
"The Exception as Norm: Jurisprudence of Extra-Constitutionality"

2. M. Waseem, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad
"Democratization in Pakistan: The 2002 Elections and After"

3. Cynthia Bottern, Shippensburg University, PA
"Striking at the Heart of Democracy: Leadership Education Requirements in Musharraf's Constitutional Order"

4 Oskar Verkaaik, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Sindhi Sufi's, Muhajir Modernists, Tribal Fundamentalist's: The Ethnicization of Islam in Pakistan"

5. Naveed-e-Rahat, Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad
Empirical Comparative Study of Cultures of Pakistan  

Discussant: Christophe Jaffrelot, Director CERI, Paris 

1. Charles H. Kennedy, Wake Forest University
"The Creation and Development of Pakistan's 'Anti-Terrorism Regime'"

2. Robert Wirsing, Asia -Pacific Center for Security, Honolulu
"Pakistan's Strategic Interests: Impact of Global War against Terrorism"

3. Jean- Luc Racine, Centre for the Study of South Asia, CNRS, Paris
Pakistan's Indian Policy: What is "The Core Issue" After9/11?

4. Peter Lavoy, Center for Conflict, National Defense University, Monterey
"Security and Defense Policy of Pakistan in the Post 9/11 World Order"

5. Michel Boivin, CNRS, Paris,
"Jihad as a Symbol: Reflections on Western Theories related to Islam and Pakistani Society."

Discussant: Rifaat Hussain, Stanford University 

1. Christina Oesterheld, University of Heidelberg
"Urdu Literature in Pakistan: A Site for Alternative Visions and Dissent"

2. Elena Bashir, University of Chicago
"Contact- Induced Change in Kohwar"

3. Maggie Ronkin, Georgetown University,
"Izzat se BaiThe hue, Allah Kii Rah par Lage"

4. Sabir Badal Khan, University of Naples
"Song as the Voice of Masses"

Discussant: Peter Hook, University of Michigan 

1. Omar Noman, UNDP, New York
"Economy of Conflict: Kashmir and Karachi" 

2. Jurgen Clements, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
"Implications of Energy Policies on Rural Development and Rural Strategies-The Case of Pakistan"

3 Anjum Khurshid, University of Texas Austin
Technology Policy and Pakistan's Economic Revival

4. Shamila N.Chaudhary, USAID Development Information Services
Foreign Feminists: The Roles of Feminists and the Women's Movement in Pakistan

5.Moeed Pirzada, Chairman, Editorial Committee, AOPP
"Kashmir: Globalization and the Strategic Dilemma for India and Pakistan"

Discussant: Tayyeb Shabbir, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania