PILDAT Dialogue Group on Civil-Military Relations met with the Chief of Army Staff, General Qamar Javed Bajwa, on Tuesday, January 15, 2019, at the GHQ. The meeting lasted for 3 hours and covered a wide range of subjects.

Members of the PILDAT Dialogue Group who joined the meeting with the COAS included Mr. Javed Jabbar, Former Senator; Former Federal Minister for Information & Media Development, Mr. Shahid Hamid, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan; Former Governor Punjab; Former Federal Minister for Defence, Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Moinuddin Haider, Former Governor Sindh; Former Federal Minister for Interior, Gen. (Retd.) Ehsan ul Haq, Former Chairman JCSC; Former DG ISI, Lt. Gen. Naeem Khalid Lodhi, Former Secretary Defence, Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Mahmud Ali Durrani, Former National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador, Mr. Shahid Malik, Former Ambassador of Pakistan, Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Athar Abbas, Former Ambassador of Pakistan; Former DG ISPR, Air Vice Marshal (Retd.) Shahzad Chaudhry, Political and Security Analyst and Former Ambassador of Pakistan; Mr. Mujib-ur-Rehman Shami, Senior Journalist, Anchor and Editor-in-Chief, Daily Pakistan, Mr. Saleem Khan Safi, Senior Journalist and Anchor, Mr. Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, President PILDAT and Ms. Aasiya Riaz, Joint Director, PILDAT.