Dr. Samina Ahmed, Islamabad-based South Asia Project Director for the International Crisis Group, which published 'Pakistan's IDP Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities' in June 2009, discussed making pledges of increased aid more effective and how to implement the Obama administration's new strategy for the region. Center for American Progress Action Fund / flickr.comABC Radio Australia
Updated December 28, 2010 21:19:33

All this week, we’re talking to some of the region’s top thinkers and looking back at the year 2010 to get a sense of what sort of a year it’s been for politics and people in some of the countries around the Asia Pacific – and for Pakistan, the year could hardly have got worse. Militant violence on the Afghan border continued and there was sectarian violence too. The government had little success controlling the situation and the international community never failed to remind Islamabad of its perceived failings. Then, in August, things did get worse. The worst floods in decades left most of the country under water, and much of it still is under water as the northern winter takes hold. Presenter: Zulfikar Abbany
Speaker: Samina Ahmed, programme director for South Asia, International Crisis Group, Islamabad

Pakistan’s flood and violence wrecked year