my name is margaret wilson. i have been a resident of san francisco for eight years. my husband and i bought a house. we did it with my daughter and her husband, and we share an old victorian with my husband, daughter, son-in-law, and their three children. since we bought the house, we have had a lot of maintenance just to repair damage and stuff. but we have been also very conscientiously trying to do environmental upgrades. and we had been a solar city customer. we put solar on our house two years ago and were able to do so with almost no out-of-pocket expense. and we have seen, you know, basically not a reduction in our energy bill, but flat on our energy bill, and we know that is from solar. so when i received a flier from solar city that announced the energy audits, i talked to my daughter and we decided that we would go and do that right away. so we replied and a requested the energy audit. we had a team of solar city people come into our house and go through the whole house, through the heating, you know, the windows, the drafting, how we used heating and stuff

come to the podium i want to of knowledge the wilson center counsel and alliance members who i think are with us today. medina adler, a friend of mine, margaretgoodman, and claudia. welcome and please any one of you who want to join the wilson council is not a hard thing to do. following his remarks president musharraf has agreed to take questions from the audience, babil dire a program lob hathaway who are sitting right there will moderate that part of this morning session. welcome back to the wilson center and it is my honor to introduce former president and perhaps future president pervez musharraf of the country of pakistan. [applause] congresswoman harman, mr. hathaway and ladies and gentlemen it is indeed my proud privilege to have been given this opportunity of talking to you and i'm extremely grateful to the woodrow wilson center for affording this opportunity. i intend talking to you for about a maximum of a half an hour and then that will set the stage for i hope a lively session. i will speak basically on pakistan on the region. i call the subject pakistan, a reality check. i will highlight significant issues in pakistan and the re

come to the podium, i want to acknowledge the wilson center council and alicense members who i -- alliance members who i think are with us today, jenny, margaretoodman, tom and claudia hentless. welcome. and can, please, any one of you who wants to join the wilson council, this is not a hard thing to do. following his remarks, president musharraf has agreed to take questions from the audience. the able director of our asia program, bob hathaway, who's sitting right there, will moderate that part of this morning's session. and so, president musharraf, welcome back to the wilson center. it is my honor to introduce president, former president and perhaps future president, pervez musharraf, of the country of pakistan. [applause] [speaking in native tongue] congresswoman jane harman, mr. bob hathaway, ladies and gentlemen, it is, indeed, my proud privilege to have been given this opportunity of talking to you, and i'm extremely grateful to the woodrow wilson center for affording this opportunitiment opportunitiment -- opportunity. i intend talking to you for about maximum half an hour, and then, and that will set the stage for, i hope, a lively q&a

musharraf to come to the podium, i want to read knowledge the wilson center council and alliance members, who might think are here today. margaretoodman, tom and claudia, welcome, and any of you who want to join the welcome counsel, this is not a hard thing to do. following remarks, he has agreed to take questions in the able director of our asian program, sitting right there, will moderate that part of this morning's session. with that, president musharraf, welcome back to the wilson center and it is my honor to introduce former president, and perhaps future president, pervez musharraf of the country of pakistan. [applause] >> congresswoman harman, ladies and gentleman, it is indeed my crown privilege to have been given this opportunity to talk to you and i am extremely grateful to the woodrow wilson center for courting me this opportunity. i intend to talk to you for about 30 minutes and that will set the stage, for i hope, a lively discussion. i will speak, basically, and pakistan on the region, and i call this "pakistan -- a reality check." i will highlight issues for pakistan and the region and set the stage for a lively q&