Extremist Madrassas, Ghost Schools, and U.S. Aid to Pakistan: Are We Making the Grade on the 9/11 Commission Report Card?

Chairman John F. Tierney (D-MA), who had recently returned from Pakistan, held the hearing entitled “Extremist Madrassas, Ghost Schools, and U.S. Aid to Pakistan: Are We Making the Grade on the 9/11 Commission Report Card?”, in part, because of the low marks given to the Administrations’ policies in preventing extremism in Pakistan on the 9/11 Commission Report Card and how that affects U.S. national security interests.

Witness List:

Panel I - 9/11 Commission and Independent Experts

Mr. Christopher Kojm, President of the 9/11 Public Discourse Project and Deputy of the 9/11 Commission

Dr. Samina Ahmed, South Asia Project Director for the International Crisis Group

Ms. Lisa Curtis, Senior Research Fellow, South Asia, Asian Studies Center, The Heritage Foundation

Mr. Craig Cohen, Deputy Chief of Staff, and Fellow, Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, International Security Program, at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Panel I1 - Department of State and USAID Officials (Invited*)

Mr. John Anthony Gastright, Jr., Deputy Assistant Secretary for South Asian Affairs, Bureau of South Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State

Mr. Mark S. Ward, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Asia and the Near East, U.S. Agency for International Development.