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.
Madrassa as mainstream
Religious seminaries have made literacy toxic in Pakistan
Some retired generals regularly appearing on TV in Pakistan — the army chief is on record saying they are not briefed by the army — have been recommending the “mainstreaming” of religious elements, dubbed “terrorist” at the UN. They presume that the “mainstream” is “normal” and “harmless”. Some mainstreaming was visible during the last election which brought Imran Khan’s Tehreek-e-Insaf to office. The “parties” fronting such madrassas, as the terrorist-declared Lashkar-e-Taiba, did rather well by cutting into the vote bank of the rightwing Pakistan Muslim League, which lost the election and was pilloried for “corruption”.
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