Taha Gaya
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Taha Gaya is the Executive Director of the Pakistani American Leadership Center (PAL-C), the premier political advocacy organization representing the Pakistani American community to the U.S. Government.

Prior to joining PAL-C, Gaya served as a Legal Fellow on the U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on the Judiciary.

Gaya is a licensed attorney in the State of California and a second-generation Pakistan-American.

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Our Job in Pakistan

Posted April 11, 2011 | 04/11/11 04:05 PM ET

The clearest criticism of Pakistan's efforts to defeat Al-Qaeda and other militants from last week's White House Report on Afghanistan and Pakistan was the line, "... what remains vexing is the lack of any indication of 'hold' and 'build' planning or staging efforts to complement ongoing clearing operations....

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The Case for a Pluralistic Pakistan: A Pakistani-American Perspective

Posted March 11, 2011 | 03/11/11 04:30 PM ET

As Pakistani Americans, we condemn the assassination of Pakistan's federal minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti. We condemn the attack the day before on a girl's college in Mardan which wounded 35 girls. We condemn these acts because they attack the very heart of what it means to...

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Begging for Security in Pakistan

Posted April 20, 2010 | 04/20/10 10:37 PM ET

As Albert Einstein famously remarked, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Last week, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Pakistan announced that due to a lack of funding, the UN might need to suspend their food and assistance program for Pakistani...

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Building Capacity Not Resentment in Pakistan

Posted May 1, 2009 | 05/01/09 06:54 PM ET

Over the past few months an extraordinarily worrisome pattern in U.S.-Pakistan relations has emerged: one in which the Taliban make advances, senior U.S. officials raise the alarm and demand action from Pakistan, subsequent action is taken and U.S. officials offer faint praise and maintain that Pakistan is still not doing...

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