Organised by IISS Research Fellow Rahul Roy-Chaudhury, with support from IISS Administrator (Research Activities and Grants) Gillian Hannant, the Fourth IISS South Asia Security Conference on 'New Threats, New Opportunities' took place on 5-7 January 2004, in Muscat, Oman. Additional support was provided by IISS-US, with Executive Director Terence Taylor chairing the meeting, and Research Assistant Natasha Pirzada acting as rapporteur.
More than 30 senior Indian and Pakistani Foreign Office officials, military officers and policy analysts participated in the meeting along with UK, European and US experts. They included Dr Maleeha Lodhi, Pakistan’s High Commissioner to the UK, Lieutenant-General V.G. Patankar, Indian army (recently Corps Commander in Kashmir), and Brigadier Naeem Ahmad Salik, Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs, Strategic Plans Division of the National Command Authority, Islamabad. Three former Chiefs of Defence Staff from the UK and Germany, General Lord Charles Guthrie (IISS Council Member), Field Marshal Lord Peter Inge and General Klaus Naumann (IISS Council Member), brought their considerable knowledge and expertise to bear on the proceedings. We were also fortunate to benefit from the participation of other IISS Council Members including Francois Heisbourg, Chairman of the IISS Council and Lieutenant-General Raghavan, Director of the Delhi Policy Group, New Delhi.
