Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf will speak to the Cornell community at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City, Tuesday, Sept. 26. The talk, in the college's Uris Auditorium at 7:30 p.m., also will be shown live on Cornell's Ithaca campus.

Musharraf will speak about experiences chronicled in his new book, "In the Line of Fire," released by Simon & Schuster this week, and about contemporary issues and challenges facing Pakistan and the world. He will be introduced by Cornell President David J. Skorton, who will moderate a question-and-answer session following the talk.

A live feed of the event will be shown in Room G10 of the Biotechnology Building on the Ithaca campus. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the broadcast will start at 7:30. It is free and open to the public.

A very limited number of free tickets for Musharraf's address in New York City will be available to the Cornell community, first come, first served, beginning Thursday, Sept. 21, at 9 a.m. in the Willard Straight Hall ticket office on campus. Those picking up tickets will need to have a Cornell ID; one ticket is allowed per person.

Ticket holders also will be able to obtain passes at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office for a chartered bus that will leave campus at noon Sept. 26 and will depart from New York for Ithaca at 10 p.m. Only ticket holders for the Musharraf address at Weill Cornell will be allowed on the bus.

Ticket holders will be required to go through a security screening at Weill Cornell at 6:30 p.m. All ticket holders must be in their seats in the auditorium by 7:15 p.m. The talk will be followed by a reception at Weill Cornell, and ticket holders will be able to attend both events.

Musharraf's visit to Cornell was made possible through the energetic support of the Musharraf Welcome Committee, led by Wasif Syed, a Cornell doctoral student in applied physics, and his colleagues Omer Bajwa, a Cornell alumnus from Near Eastern studies, and Dr. Saeed Bajwa, Omer's father and a neurosurgeon in Binghamton.