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Khaled Ahmed
Khaled Ahmed was born in 1943 in Jallandhar during the siege of Stalingrad. He has been an opinion writer based in Pakistan for the past 40 years. Over his decades of experience, he has worked for The Pakistan Times, The Nation, The Frontier Post, The Friday Times and The Daily Times, three of which have been closed down either permanently or temporarily. He is now consulting editor at Newsweek Pakistan, based in Lahore. Ahmed graduated from Government College Lahore during the 1965 war with India with an MA (Honours) on the roll of honour, along with a diploma in German from Punjab University. In 1970, he received a diploma in Russian (Interpretation) from Moscow State University. In 2006, he wrote the book, Sectarian War: Sunni-Shia Conflict in Pakistan at the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC.
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The maltreatment of the scientific principle in PakistanSubscriber Only
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The gap of learning between India and Pakistan is significant because it goes beyond the argument of population ratios.
Sun, Aug 27, 2023
In Pakistan, the misfortunes of fundamentalism were foreshadowedSubscriber Only
December 26,2020 00:40:03 AM
Khaled Ahmed writes: The US under Donald Trump, India under Narendra Modi, the UK under Boris Johnson, Turkey under Recep Tayyip Erdogan — and most East European states who maltreat “refugees” and shun foreigners — foreshadow the misfortunes of tomorrow. Pakistan is no exception.
Sat, Dec 26, 2020
Pakistan’s blasphemy law is used to target the Christian community with impunitySubscriber Only
December 19,2020 03:40:20 AM
Before India’s “love jihad”, Pakistan found its way to getting rid of its Christians. Blasphemy was pinned on them with the confidence that no judge would let them off the hook, with pious crowds demanding death outside his court.
Sat, Dec 19, 2020
In Pakistan, the media is intimidated by both state and non-state actorsSubscriber Only
December 12,2020 03:25:18 AM
There are many “parties” working as “non-state actors” who may dislike your reports and come after you. In the interior of the province of Sindh, a journalist can be kidnapped and killed by an offended landlord called “wadero”.
Sat, Dec 12, 2020
Pakistan state’s surrender to Hafiz Saeed embodies the perils of religious ideologySubscriber Only
December 05,2020 04:15:03 AM
The surrender of the state to Saeed was a blend of two contingencies — the evolution of the ideology of the state under Islam, and the drive of a revisionist policy vis-à-vis India.
Sat, Dec 05, 2020
Kamala Harris is more likely to think of a new paradigm for South AsiaSubscriber Only
November 28,2020 03:05:11 AM
Kamala Harris is an American growing up in a milieu where racism was the first battle she had to fight. She is sure to look at the plight of human rights in both India and Pakistan under mounting religious discrimination.
Sat, Nov 28, 2020
Journalist Declan Walsh’s account describes exasperation, and hope, in PakistanSubscriber Only
November 21,2020 03:27:16 AM
Walsh sums it up like this: “To me, Pakistan resembled one of those old Japanese puzzle boxes, comprised of secret compartments and hidden traps, which can only be opened in a unique, step-by-step sequence."
Sat, Nov 21, 2020
Pakistan has not used its geographical advantage to become a trading nationSubscriber Only
November 14,2020 03:40:41 AM
China, India’s largest trading partner — $94 billion both ways — has to use the roundabout route through Southeast Asia to transport its goods. Yet, Pakistan is on the verge of changing its identity from a war-fighting nation to a trading one.
Sat, Nov 14, 2020
Vituperation against political opponents marks Pakistan’s public discourseSubscriber Only
November 07,2020 03:30:12 AM
Pakistan is going through a period of “verbal degradation”. Politicians for and against the government employ a language often described by themselves as gali-galoch.
Sat, Nov 07, 2020
Hekmatyar Redux: With US exiting Afghanistan, is the warlord of any use to Pakistan?Subscriber Only
October 31,2020 03:20:56 AM
The dilemma for whoever deals with post-US Afghanistan is the fragmentation of the Afghan warriors divided into bands, Pakhtuns on the one hand and the non-Pakhtun on the other.
Sat, Oct 31, 2020
Struggling on eastern, western borders, Pak has hit a spot of political turbulenceSubscriber Only
October 24,2020 03:20:48 AM
Corruption has always been the main flaw of a state made unstable by its unrealistic revisionism. Imran Khan has added to that an abysmally low-grade political discourse.
Sat, Oct 24, 2020
The women of Afghanistan stand to lose the most if the Taliban return to powerSubscriber Only
October 17,2020 04:00:41 AM
Pakistan is putting up a wire-fence on the Durand Line while the Taliban — Afghan and Pakistani — take potshots at the soldiers assigned to erect the fence. Yet, when the deluge of refugees comes, fleeing the exemplary bravery of the Islamic soldiers, it will be the children and women who will suffer most.
Sat, Oct 17, 2020
Pakistan is vulnerable to the impending ideological storm in AfghanistanSubscriber Only
October 10,2020 03:20:40 AM
If the Taliban take over from the Afghan government, they will have a tough time deciding which group of warriors will have the lead in governance.
Sat, Oct 10, 2020
In Pakistan, protest over a rape turned into an anti-government movementSubscriber Only
October 03,2020 03:30:30 AM
In the first 60 days of 2020, as many as 73 incidents of rape were reported in Lahore, including five gang-rape cases — 10 cases of gang-rape were registered in the whole of 2019.
Sat, Oct 03, 2020
Pakistan may not be intellectually flexible enough to deal with Arab-Israel thawSubscriber Only
September 26,2020 04:04:08 AM
Nuclear but economically bankrupt, Pakistan needs a lot of “flexibility” during this period of the grand split within the Muslim world.
Sat, Sep 26, 2020
The symbiosis of religions under the singing saint in Sindh lasted three centuriesSubscriber Only
September 19,2020 03:20:00 AM
Not long ago the mausoleum of Data Ganj Bakhsh was suicide-bombed in Lahore, where not long ago Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims lived peacefully together and accepted the mystic saint as the guardian spirit of the city.
Sat, Sep 19, 2020
Jhulelal And PeaceSubscriber Only
September 19,2020 03:00:17 AM
The symbiosis of religions under the singing saint in Sindh lasted three centuries.
Fri, Sep 18, 2020
Pakistan sees its face in the mirror and doesn’t like what it seesSubscriber Only
September 12,2020 03:10:20 AM
Stalin fought against fascism but then created an ideological state, which was not much different from Hitler’s Germany. Pakistan is like Caliban. It sees its face in the mirror and doesn’t like what it sees.
Sat, Sep 12, 2020
Two years of Imran Khan: His sheen has worn off, but a decimated opposition keeps his power intactSubscriber Only
September 05,2020 03:04:19 AM
Khaled Ahmed writes: Imran Khan must worry about Pakistan’s poor-quality manpower and consequently its poor-quality industrial base. Chinese projects under China Pakistan Economic Corridor face this problem while Saudi Arabia is persuaded to ignore Pakistan and invest in India to diversify its oil-based economy.
Sat, Sep 05, 2020
Pakistan’s attempts to get Islamic countries to condemn India over J&K have had mixed resultsSubscriber Only
August 29,2020 04:00:46 AM
Khaled Ahmed writes: Pakistan and India have changed their maps, if that gives any satisfaction to the affected people, but they must strive for the normalisation of relations needed in the region.
Sat, Aug 29, 2020
Pakistan needs to grasp that pragmatism, strategic realities lie behind Arab-Israeli detenteSubscriber Only
August 22,2020 04:20:55 AM
Khaled Ahmed writes: Pakistan has been in two minds about recognising Israel, especially after India revived its almost dead relationship in 1992 and proceeded to trade with it in the high-tech sector without creating any negative reaction among Pakistan’s Arab friends.
Sat, Aug 22, 2020
Why Pakistan bans booksSubscriber Only
August 14,2020 20:32:56 PM
The general directive for textbooks implies that Pakistan is for the Muslims alone
Fri, Aug 14, 2020
Pakistan’s education ‘reforms’ are privileging the madrassa systemSubscriber Only
August 07,2020 04:05:42 AM
Teachers labelled “liberal” and “secular” are the first to be rendered jobless under the looming reform. Nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy and another “science” teacher have been sacked from a Lahore university as a foretaste of what is to come.
Sat, Aug 08, 2020
Rather than shoring up national identity, religion creates schismsSubscriber Only
August 01,2020 06:05:24 AM
Pakistan has constitutionally ousted the Ahmadi Muslims from state nationality. They are not Muslims in Pakistan. They become Muslims the moment they step into, let’s say, India that has not apostatised them.
Sat, Aug 01, 2020
Confessions of a dreaded don are a reminder of crime-politics nexus in PakistanSubscriber Only
July 25,2020 03:55:33 AM
Khaled Ahmed writes: Uzair is hopefully the last of the Baloch dacoits of Lyari, Karachi’s largest district. If he gets his comeuppance, it will be the end of a classic Sindhi interface with the Baloch legend that linked Karachi to Balochistan on both sides of the Iran-Pakistan border.
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