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Khaled Ahmed born 21 December 1943, is a best known Pakistani political analyst, his weekly column appears in Pakistan's newspaper The Friday Times. He regularly contributes to The Daily Times, both published in Lahore.
Among his writing is a frequent analysis of Urdu press in Pakistan. He routinely points to misleading journalism, what he sees as conspiracy theories in the popular press. His column "Nuggets from the Urdu Press," appears in both The Friday Times and The Daily Times. The weekly column "Word for Word" explores the origins of Urdu words as a basis for commentary on Islam and society.
He is the author of several books, including Pakistan: Behind the Ideological Mask (2000), and Pakistan: the State in Crisis (2001).
He was born on 21 December 1943 in Jullundher, India, and settled in Lahore after the partition of India. Ahmed received his masters degree in English literature from Government College, Lahore. He achieved first position in the University in 1969 and was entered in the Roll of Honour for that year. He was also Editor of The Ravi from 1968 to 1969 (under the chief editor).
In 1969 he move on to a postgraduate Diploma in International Affairs (1969) at Punjab University, then a Diploma in Interpretership (Russian) at Moscow State University in 1970.
From 1969 to 1978 he worked in the Pakistan Foreign Service, reaching the position of was Third Secretary, and was posted to Moscowand Prague because of his expertise in the Russian language and Soviet affairs. He was awarded a Presidential commendation in 1973 for writing a special report from Moscow.
He then adopted journalism as a profession, working from 1978 to 1988 as assistant editor at The Pakistan Times (daily). During this period he won a fellowship in the United States and worked for three months at the Christian Science Monitor in Boston.
From 1988 to 1990 he was joint editor of The Nation, a Lahore daily. In 1990 he became editor of the English-language Lahore dailyFrontier Post.
Since 1993 he has been Consulting Editor of The Friday Times, a Lahore weekly. From 1993 to 1997 he was also editor of the Urdu weekly Ajkal.
Pakistan: Behind the Ideological Mask (Vanguard Books Lahore 2000)
(Book) Pakistan: the State in Crisis (Vanguard Books Lahore 2001)
1991 to 1993 was one of the founder members of Indo-Pak Neemrana Dialogue, track-two diplomacy.
Other Activities
In 1992 he participated in the Kashmir dialogue between India and Pakistan at Washington’s Institute of Peace.
In 1995 he was a member of the Pakistan delegation to Moscow and read a paper there on Pak-Russian bilateral trade.
1995 was participant at a New Delhi discussion on Indo-Pakistani relations organised by Time magazine.
In 1996 he was a SAARC observer of the Bangladesh national elections and wrote the SAARC report on the status of the minorities in Bangladesh.
In 1996 he read a paper on Indo-Pak trade at a US-sponsored seminar in Islamabad.
In 1996 he was a delegate of the Pakistan Group of Environmentalist Journalists to an Asian conference in Bangkok organised byUNDP.
In 1997 he was invited as observer to elections in Scotland and wrote about the Scottish parliament.
In 1997 he was a member of the US-sponsored Travelling Dialogue in New Delhi and Bombay.
In 1998 he attended the United Nations discussion on Palestine in New Delhi.
In 1999 he attended a World Bank conference on democracy and globalisation in Seoul, South Korea.
In 2000 he wrote a paper on the Nuclearisation of South Asia at Stimson Center, Washington.
In 2004 he participated in Pugwash meeting in New Delhi and spoke on SAARC free trade plans.
In 2006 he got a Woodrow Wilson scholarship to Washington and wrote a book titled Sectarian War in Pakistan.
Journalistic contributions:
Contributed to Outlook (New Delhi) and to Gulf Today in Sharjah, also to other publications in India. Wrote the special number of Himal(a Kathmandu weekly) on Jinnah.
Contributed a chapter on fundamentalism for a 2001 Harper-Collins book, On the Abyss: Pakistan After the Coup.[1]
Lectured at the Civil Service Academy, Lahore, and the Administrative Staff College, Lahore, regularly over the years.
Lectured on the Gulf and the UN at the Naval War College, Lahore.
Contributed to panel discussions at the National Defence College, Islamabad, including the subject of International Security Systems and Security in South Asia, in 2003. Lectured at NDC on the current crisis of the state in Pakistan.
Lecture at Berkeley University on Jihad in February 2001. Attended a Brookings conference on US and the Islamic World at Doha in November 2002.
Member of Pugwash Conference Pakistan Chapter relating to India and Pakistan.
Spoke on Media in Pakistan in Boston, USA 2004. Spoke at War College, Washington, in 2007. Was scholar at Woodrow Wilson Center in 2006.
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