Khaled Ahmed - Other Activities

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 by UNDP.

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.

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.