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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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A Mandir in Islamabad: Why Imran Khan government must aid, not stall, the projectSubscriber Only
July 18, 2020 03:45 IST
Khaled Ahmed writes: Pakistan must recall the golden age when Muslims and Hindus benefited from each other. Religion has got Muslims their Pakistan but mathematics remains the weakest subject taught in their schools and universities.
Sat, Jul 18, 2020
The slow poison of Osama: A man, an organisation, and the spreading of terrorSubscriber Only
July 11, 2020 04:04 IST
Since Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan fondly remembers the founder of al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, as a “martyr” of the faith, it is only relevant to talk about this “sacred” relationship.
Sat, Jul 11, 2020
Pakistan Prime Minister needs a recent history lesson on Osama bin LadenSubscriber Only
July 04, 2020 02:45 IST
Many in Pakistan who thought Bin Laden was a terrorist who had undermined Pakistan’s sovereignty were shocked. Many, however, still believe that Bin Laden didn’t do the 9/11 bombing and that it was actually “an American Neocon-Jewish conspiracy to create an excuse to clobber the Muslims”.
Sat, Jul 04, 2020
In Pakistan, opposition is on the run, but Imran’s own side is weakeningSubscriber Only
June 27, 2020 00:48 IST
Unfortunately, Khan is bound to react wrongly to the recent China-India scrap and rile the Indians more against his government, not realising that the scuffle in Ladakh may soon be tactfully resolved by the two neighbours involved in big-time bilateral trade.
Sat, Jun 27, 2020
New coercive order spreading over Muslim society is not political, but intellectualSubscriber Only
June 20, 2020 02:45 IST
Hoodbhoy has diagnosed what is happening to the Muslim mind. This mind is not only producing strange reactions to the sciences; it is also trying to tackle the question of governance without separating the state from religious belief.
Sat, Jun 20, 2020
Cynthia Ritchie’s accusations against the powerful have shaken PakistanSubscriber Only
June 13, 2020 04:00 IST
Khaled Ahmed writes: On Her On Ritchie’s YouTube channel, she is shown traversing the “the length and breadth of the vast terrain of Pakistan”, meeting people, “savouring the Pakistani cuisine and even driving a traditionally bedecked Pakistani truck”.
Sat, Jun 13, 2020
Madrasas enjoy impunity in Pakistan’s regions where writ of the state is thinSubscriber Only
June 06, 2020 00:31 IST
A secular general is difficult to find in Pakistan because most of them, if not all, have a deep ideological commitment.
Sat, Jun 06, 2020
Delhi is unlikely to opt for an escalation with China that affects its economySubscriber Only
May 30, 2020 04:07 IST
India’s position in South Asia and the Gulf has gained acknowledgement because of its economy — note the Arab investment which has gone to India instead of Pakistan — and China is a peripheral challenger in the region, in addition to being one of its biggest trading partners.
Sat, May 30, 2020
Who is being backed by Pakistan in Afghanistan in these days of chaos?Subscriber Only
May 23, 2020 00:23 IST
What is happening in Afghanistan is going to affect Pakistan and since Pakistan is no longer clear whom it can support, the coming post-US withdrawal days will mean trouble for it.
Sat, May 23, 2020
Nehru-Liaquat Pact is testimony to an India-Pakistan relationship less rancorousSubscriber Only
May 16, 2020 00:51 IST
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru wanted a no-war pact with Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan. The mere fact that it was actually discussed measures for us the “normal” goodwill that existed despite the years of quarrelling during the Pakistan Movement.
Sat, May 16, 2020
Educational reform under Imran Khan is a way of embracing isolationism.Subscriber Only
May 09, 2020 00:37 IST
The uniformity of mind created in the state-sector schools is a kind of preparation for the final takeover by the pure madrassa stream — the utopia Pakistan aspires to.
Sat, May 09, 2020
In Pakistan, religious leaders, not doctors, are setting Covid policySubscriber Only
May 02, 2020 04:00 IST
Unsurprisingly, the clergy in Pakistan has the upper hand and has defeated the doctors in deciding the state policy against COVID-19, which had struck 10,500 victims and had claimed 280 lives at the end of April.
Sat, May 02, 2020
Pakistan has seen some unconventional judges in the Supreme Court in recent timesSubscriber Only
April 25, 2020 00:08 IST
It appears that by the time a judge becomes a member of the Supreme Court in Pakistan, his personality is elevated to the status of a saviour. People living in small cities, and suffering the tyranny of the local feudal aristocracy, want their sons to either join the police department or become a lawyer.
Sat, Apr 25, 2020
India, Pakistan, Turkey are going back to religion. There is a better waySubscriber Only
April 18, 2020 03:05 IST
Can we roll back the religious state and the utopia of violent suppression of the variant point of view? Pakistan and India can prosper by becoming good trading partners, linking up with China and Iran and Central Asia where India still enjoys a lot of goodwill.
Sat, Apr 18, 2020
Religious congregations and beliefs need a relook in times of coronavirusSubscriber Only
April 09, 2020 00:15 IST
When Pakistan decided to “lock down” the country in the third week of March, mosque congregations had to be ignored because most clerical leaders were not in favour of the closure.
Thu, Apr 09, 2020
That Omar Sheikh is let off by Pakistan court should worry the worldSubscriber Only
April 04, 2020 00:08 IST
The trial was shifted to the Hyderabad jail from Karachi because the prosecution kept receiving threatening messages from the terrorists supporting Omar.
Sat, Apr 04, 2020
In 21st century Pakistan, women continue to be denied agency, rightsSubscriber Only
March 21, 2020 02:22 IST
In Pakistan, most women living away from big cities have to survive in a hostile environment. Almost half of Pakistan’s 225 million population comprises women, which means half of Pakistan is getting a raw deal in the 21st century.
Sat, Mar 21, 2020
Non-Muslim Urdu writers of Lahore left behind memoirs of abiding love for the citySubscriber Only
March 14, 2020 03:35 IST
Over time, Lahore became the publishing capital of India and printed Urdu magazines with circulation reaching across India to Burma, where the last Mughal king had been exiled.
Sat, Mar 14, 2020
Islamabad is unlikely to benefit from US-Taliban pactSubscriber Only
March 07, 2020 05:04 IST
Fissures in Afghanistan's policy could spill into Pakistan, tilting balance in favour of madrasa-based radicalism.
Sat, Mar 07, 2020
Pakistan is hunting down groups it sees as acting on India’s behalfSubscriber Only
February 29, 2020 04:05 IST
Pakistan and India might think it is a good strategy to use tribesmen in Afghanistan and Pakistan to get even with each other; but the common man is suffering and is being punished for protesting his uprooted life.
Sat, Feb 29, 2020
Lahore and Government College University, are now recognising Har Gobind KhoranaSubscriber Only
February 22, 2020 03:10 IST
Khorana is not the only great Hindu that Lahore is now getting ready to remember. There was a boy called Ganga Ram who left his big mark on the city. Ganga Ram was born in 1851 in a Sikh saadhu’s hut in Mangtanwala, about 40 miles from Lahore.
Sat, Feb 22, 2020For Pakistan, 2020 could be the year of punishmentSubscriber Only
February 15, 2020 04:50 IST
Imran Khan loves defiance but Pakistan can hardly afford it either abroad or at home. The opposition PPP and PMLN are hounded by cases of corruption against their mostly ailing leaders that the courts are reluctant to punish.
Sat, Feb 15, 2020
How the United Kingdom has been a laboratory for a brand of IslamSubscriber Only
February 08, 2020 02:08 IST
Pakistanis get radicalised after migrating to the UK. Their children get radicalised growing up in labour-class communities where Islam is practiced in more intense forms. One such “transformed” person was Al-Muhajiroun’s founder, Anjum Chaudhry, of Pakistani origin, who is now in jail.
Sat, Feb 08, 2020
Shuja Nawaz’s new book explores differences between Pakistan army and radical elementsSubscriber Only
February 01, 2020 03:11 IST
The book sums up prescriptively the brainwash affecting the civil-military relationship too: “More needs to be done to turn back the forces of religious obscurantism and ritualism that have crept into Pakistani society and even the military."
Sat, Feb 01, 2020
India should realise that trade and opening borders can address Kashmir disputeSubscriber Only
January 25, 2020 00:30 IST
What happened in the Valley was hair-raising enough to shock the world and drag Pakistan back into its national position of challenging India.
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