In this talk, Asghar takes us on a journey through the world-shaking developments in that country. He examines how Pakistan has descended into chaos, and why the United States increasingly recognizes the need to help pull Pakistan out of that chaos. Along the way, he touches on the lows and highs of Pakistanis’ experiences with and in America.

In addition to writing for the The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune and Philadelphia Inquirer, Asghar is a contributor to The Huffington Post, the Providence Journal and the Los Angeles Daily News and has been affiliated with Creators Syndicate. He is a fellow at USC’s Center on Public Diplomacy, as well as a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy and the Los Angeles World Affairs Council.

Asghar is a native Californian who observed, during his years in Pakistan, the first waves of anti-American rage within the Muslim world. After 9/11, Asghar began to write about the war on terror and American foreign policy. Asghar’s late father began a large school several years ago in the backwater Pakistani village in which he’d been raised, to ensure quality education and opportunity for a new generation of girls and boys of the beleaguered Indus Valley.