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 <em>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.</em> 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.
When Travel Closes Minds
Pakistanis are returning from abroad radicalised, not anglicised as before.
My hero, journalist Robert Fisk of The Independent, has chastised the West for maltreating expat Muslims, and praised New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for the way she reacted to the killing of 50 Muslims in Christchurch last month. Fisk was disgusted by Australia’s racist senator, Fraser Anning, who blamed the Christchurch bloodbath on “the immigration programme that allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate”.
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