Khaled Ahmed Archive
What made Shahbaz Taseer’s release possible: Shahbaz Taseer’s release was made possible due to payment of a hefty sum of Rs2 billion to radical Deobandi outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, an affiliate of Taliban and Al-Qaeda. The mediatory role was played by Javed Ibrahim Paracha, a local
پپلز پارٹی پنجاب کے اُجڑنے کے بعد کا منظر – عمار کاظمی: کوئی سننے، سمجھنے والا ہوتا تو ہم اکیلے نہ ہوتےتحریک انصاف کی حقیقت محض اتنی سی ہے کہ اپر مڈل کلاس کی یوتھ نے لوور مڈل کلاس کی یوتھ کو بے وقوف بنا رکھا ہے۔ اسی طرح سے نواز
Who killed Murtaza Bhutto? – Khaled Ahmed: September 20 was the anniversary of the assassination of Mir Murtaza Bhutto, the elder son of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The former president of Pakistan and the Pakistan People’s Party’s “co-chairman”, Asif Ali Zardari, currently located in the UAE, spoke
Malik Ishaq Deobandi’s killing and the rule of violence – by Khaled Ahmed: Pakistan experienced a spate of deaths in August, the month it was born. General (retired) Hamid Gul, the military panjandrum, whose reductionist strategising was internalised by the people of Pakistan, died a natural death on August 15. The following
Is the PPP dying? – Khaled Ahmed: Pakistan’s only “federal” political party, the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), suffered a blow to its solar plexus when Asim Hussain was arrested in Karachi for corruption on August 26. An old schoolfellow of and personal physician to PPP boss
خالد احمد – پاکستان میں دھشت گردی اور اس کی فکری بنیادوں کا ڈسکورس – عامر حسینی: خالد احمد اپنی کتاب ” فرقہ وارانہ جنگ ۔۔۔۔پاکستان میں شیعہ – سنّی تشدد اور اس کے مڈل ایسٹ سے رشتے ” کے چوتھے باب کے فٹ نوٹ میں انکشاف کرتے ہیں ” میں نے پبلک ایڈمنسٹریشن سٹاف کالج
Shia genocide by Deobandis in Pakistan and the Lucknow connection – by Khaled Ahmed: It may shock many Indians to know that the massacre of the Shia in Pakistan since 2002 has been caused by edicts of apostatisation issued by a Deobandi madrasa of Lucknow. Deobandi is a sub-sect of Sunni Islam which
Sipah-e-Sahaba is not an outcome of class war between Sunnis and Shias of Jhang – Nazir Naji: In this article pubished in Urdu daily Dunya, veteran Pakistani columnist Nazir Naji exposes and debunks the misleading myth/disinformation spread by certain pseudoliberal and Deobandi Islamist circles that the banned Deobandi terrorist group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP, currently operating as
The Takfiri Deobandi violence against Shias in Pakistan – by Khaled Ahmed: LUBP Editor’s note: Adapted with some changes from the Economic and Political Weekly. The changes reflect the fact that target killing of Shia Muslims at the hands of Takfiri Deobandi militants cannot and must not be described as Sunni-Shia
We support Pakistan army’s action against Takfiri Deobandi militants hiding in Lal Masjid: Edited and adapted from Khaled Ahmed’s Analysis: What really happened at Lal Masjid [poll id=”13″] Related posts: LUBP archive on terrorists hiding in Islamabad’s Lal Masjid The news on 5 December 2012 read like this: Pakistan’s Supreme Court has
Full text of General Kayani’s speech on Pakistan Independence Day, and some comments: Full text of General Kayani’s speech last month (Independence Day) on war on extremism and terrorism; “our own war, and a just war too”. Perhaps it’s time to practice what we preach! Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Pervez
Army nurtured them as its proxy warriors and then surrendered to them its monopoly of violence – by Khaled Ahmed: Related post: Silence of Pakistan army generals on Shia genocide – by Feisal Naqvi Today, Shiite Muslims are most target killed faith group in Pakistan’s entire history. According to an estimate, at least 19,000 Shia have been killed due
Dangerous duffers: ISI’s interface with terror – by Khaled Ahmed: On July 12, 2012, ex-ISI chief General (retd) Asad Durrani appeared on PTV and expressed his views in his characteristic reductive manner. Durrani cultivates gruffness as his trademark. In this, he is like a predecessor of his, General Mahmood Ahmad: the
#ShiaGenocide: When the State kills – by Khaled Ahmed, Naziha Syed Ali: Editor’s note: Here is a collection of three articles from 2001 and 2002 to remind LUBP readers of the state of Shia genocide in Pakistan almost a decade ago. Not much has changed in terms of Pakistan army and
Keeping mum about the Punjabi Taliban -by Khaled Ahmed: I was surprised a fortnight ago to receive a note from Lahore’s General Post Office saying I had imported a banned book which the Post Office had duly confiscated. The book was Punjabi Taliban by Mujahid Hussain (Pentagon Press,
Khaled Ahmed’s false binaries on Hazara Shias and Pashtuns: Khaled Ahmed in TFT offers a classical example of flawed analysis on religious extremism and violence in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Given Mr. Ahmed’s past sterling scholarship on this topic, the present article is a disappointment. The author presents a
Book review: Taliban and Anti-Taliban, Another book to kill for? – by Khaled Ahmed: Another bombshell will have to be endured by the national Taliban narrative with ‘Taliban and anti-Taliban’ by Farhat Taj (Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2011), a Research Fellow at Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Research, University of Oslo, Norway, an MPhil in
Malik Ishaq of LeJ-ASWJ: a most dangerous man – by Khaled Ahmed: The Supreme Court of Pakistan on July 15 released on bail Malik Ishaq, leader and founder of Al Qaeda-linked Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, on grounds of “lack of evidence.” The man had been facing a number of cases at the antiterrorism court
The GHQ has got it wrong! -by Khaled Ahmed: The Pakistan Army has turned Pakistan isolatiaonist on the principle of ghairat (honour). Everyone knows it runs the country’s foreign and security policies. Look closely enough and you will find that it runs practically everything. The TV channels emphasising
On Hamid Mir’s definition of liberal-fascist – by Khaled Ahmed: Desperately seeking ‘liberal-fascist’ According to Hamid Mir in Jang (Jan 20, 2011), a “liberal-fascist is he who supports the US drone attacks on Pakistani territory, opposes the Islamic articles of the 1973 Constitution, supports Musharraf in his rule and is
Hamid Mir criticizes Najam Sethi and Khaled Ahmed: میڈیا کے خلاف میڈیا کا جھوٹ حامد میر پاکستان کا میڈیا چاروں سے حملے کی زد میں ہے۔ پاکستانی میڈیا کے وہ تمام ادارے اور شخصیات جو اپنے عوام میں مقبول ہیں انہیں امریکہ اور بھارت کی حکومتوں کی
Book review: Hazrat Ali and Nahjal Balagha — by Khaled Ahmed: Justice and Remembrance: Introducing the Spirituality of Imam Ali By Reza Shah-Kazemi; IB Tauris 2006 Pp 254; Special price Rs995 Available at bookstores in Pakistan This is a book from The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, and is dedicated
Was Jinnah a Shia or a Sunni? – by Khaled Ahmed: Jinnah’s funeral, Karachi (1948) Jinnah, … was wont to describe himself in public as neither a Shia nor a Sunni. His stock answer to a query about his sect was: was Muhammad [pbuh] the Prophet a Shia or a
Ideology as ‘false consciousness’ – by Khaled Ahmed: Pakistan began describing itself as an ideological state when the word had been made respectable by the Soviet Union through its planned economy and rapid growth. Ideology in the case of Pakistan was its religion. The state is not
Media, democracy and governance — by Babar Ayaz: This is one of the problems of a society where we talk about democracy and criticise the government day in and day out, but when it comes to tolerating criticism on us we retaliate. Perhaps the democrat in us
Daughters of Al Huda: A Farhat Hasmi enteprise – by Khaled Ahmed: We are wrong to look for terrorist tracts in the madrassa. The suicide bomber is not made through syllabi but through isolation from society. When we wish to produce a normal citizen we begin by socialising the child. Anyone
‘Data Darbar had to be destroyed because of Ibn Taymiyya’: An interview with Khaled Ahmed: Source: View Point ‘Data Darbar had to be destroyed because of Ibn Taymiyya’ Sunni-Sunni war was much earlier and it reached a peak in 2006 at Nishtar Park, the year the ISI allowed Sipah-e-Sahaba to stage its show of
Deobandi fatwa declaring India “Dar al-Aman”: It seems that Deobandis have finally conceded that India is not a place worthy of Islamic jihad. This is U-turn from their ideology since Syed Ahmed Barelvi’s violent jihad. However, the question is: truce for Hindus, while Shias are
A review of Khaled Ahmed’s “Sectarian War: Pakistan’s Sunni-Shia Violence and its links to the Middle East” – by Khalid Hasan: Sectarian conflict looms over Pakistan, says study By Khalid Hasan Source: Daily Times, May 14, 2007 WASHINGTON: Sectarian violence marked by the Shia-Sunni conflict threatens to engulf Pakistan as the current century gets underway, predicts a new study released
Pakistan: Fauj aur Mullaon kay Darmiyan – Book Review: When prime ministers bowed to jihad —by Khaled Ahmed Pakistan: Fauj aur Mullaon kay Darmiyan; By Hussain Haqqani; Translated into Urdu by Shafiqur Rehman Mian; Vanguard Books Lahore 2008; Pp308 Shafiqur Rehman Mian has done a good job of
Book Review: How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba and the Hijacking of Afghanistan – Roy Gutman: BOOK REVIEW: Afghan war’s hidden blunders —by Khaled Ahmed How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of AfghanistanBy Roy GutmanVanguard Books Lahore 2008 – Pp322 – Available at bookstores in Pakistan The book