POLITICAL TRANSITION IN PAKISTAN Host Carol Castiel talks with Lisa Curtis Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center and Michael Kugelman Senior Program Associate for South and Southeast Asia at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars about what the election of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif means for Pakistan and US-Pakistani relations as well as for overall stability in the South Asian region. They discuss prospects for improved relations between India and Pakistan as well as the on-again off-again controversial talks that the United States has promoted with the Afghan Taliban.