Shuja Nawaz, director of the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center, was recently featured on the television program CrossTalk with Peter Lavelle, broadcast on RussiaToday TV. Nawaz discussed the current state of the U.S.-Pakistan relationship, and how this relationship is vital to winning the war in Afghanistan.

Nawaz was joined on the program by Dan Qayyum, analyst at the Pakistani alternative policy institute and news-service PKKH (PakistanKaKhudaHafiz.com), and Anatol Lieven, a Senior Researcher (Bernard L. Schwartz fellow and American Strategy Program fellow) at the New America Foundation, where he focuses on US global strategy and the War on Terrorism. Lieven is also Chair of International Relations and Terrorism Studies at King’s College London.