On August 4, 2010, the American Foreign Policy Council hosted a luncheon featuring Zahid Jamil, a leading Pakistani lawyer and activist. The event brought together a number of senior Congressional staff and Executive Branch officials specializing in counterterrorism and foreign affairs. In his presentation, Barrister Jamil – a former prosecutor in the trial of the killers of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, and currently a consultant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Treasury Department – focused on the lack of judicial reform in Pakistan, and on how lawlessness and corruption currently hamper counterterrorism cooperation between Washington and Islamabad.
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