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Last week Pakistan's army chief took control of the government, unseating the unpopular prime minister, Nawaz Sharif. In economically troubled Pakistan, the coup was greeted with relief, but the rest of the world is wondering what will happen next. A panel talks about the latest in a series of military takeovers that have marked Pakistan's history.
Shahid Husain, former senior executive vice president at the World Bank; served as special assistant to former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto (1976)
Teresita Schaffer, Director, South Asia Project, The Center for Strategic and International Studies
Steven Cohen, senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institution
Ben Carson discusses his memoir "The Big Picture" (Zondervan), the story of how through determination and his faith in God, he left behind a tough inner-city childhood to become chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, one of the nation's most prestigious medical centers.
Ben Carson, author
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