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The Kashmir conflict has been on the world's conscience for over six decades. This conflict, which started out as a political justice issue, devolved into a human rights morass over time, especially in the last two decades. At the same time, this issue has been one of the two major sources of what has been euphemistically labeled as the Muslim angst. There are national security implications for the US as well, as the road to peace in Afghanistan is widely believed to go through Kashmir.
Cocktails at
5:30,
presentation
6:00-6:30
followed by
discussion and
more
cocktails. $40 helps to defray the costs of
drinks, cigars, and
sandwiches.
Reservations
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The
Kashmir Conflict:
The Issues, the Abuses,
and what it means to the
US
K. Rizwan Kadir
Director, Islamic
Schools League of
America
Tuesday,
May 1,
5:30-8:30pm
The
Lounge at Iwan
Ries
19 South
Wabash
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K. Rizwan Kadir has
been a Cigar Society member for
several years. He is a senior
management consultant to Fortune 100
companies in the areas of strategic
planning, governance, and financial
management. He started his career
with the investment banking firm of
The Chicago Corporation, and then
worked at emerging growth firms at
Director and C-level positions,
including Chief Operating,
Compliance, and Finance Officer
roles. He has an MBA in Finance and
International Business from the
University of Chicago, where he also
completed PhD-level course work in
quantitative finance. He attended
Northwestern University as an
undergraduate. As a Director of
University of Chicago’s Alumni Board
from 2004 to 2007, he led its
programming for the alumni, and
presently counsels prospective
undergraduate, MBA, and PhD
students. Currently, he is
Chairman of MCC Full Time School
(Morton Grove), one of the largest
and oldest Islamic schools in the
US. As President of the Pakistan
Club at the University of Chicago’s
Booth School of Business, he has
spearheaded strategic initiatives
such as admissions sessions, flood
and earthquake relief work,
presentations by senior corporate
executives, diplomats, economists,
and academics, and has organized an
investments conference about
Pakistan. Since 9/11, he has been
involved in inter-faith dialogs in
the North Shore suburbs, and also
worked on a project with the US
Treasury’s Counter-Terrorism Unit to
develop financial guidelines for the
US-based Islamic charities.
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About
the Cigar Society of Chicago
ONE OF
THE OLDEST AND greatest
traditions of the city clubs of
Chicago is the discussion of
intellectual, social, legal,
artistic, historical,
scientific, musical, theatrical,
and philosophical issues in the
company of educated, bright, and
appropriately provocative
individuals, all under the
beneficent influence of
substantial amounts of tobacco
and spirits. The
Cigar Society of Chicago
embraces this tradition and
extends it with its Informal
Smokers, University
Series lectures, and Cigar
Society Dinners, in which
cigars, and from time to time
pipes and cigarettes, appear as
an important component of our
version of the classical symposium.
To be included in the Cigar
Society's mailing list, write to
the Secretary at
CigarSociety@logicophilosophicus.org.
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