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Brief profile of Prof Ishtiaq Ahmed

Prof Ahmed was born in Lahore, Pakistan, on 24 February 1947. He received my doctorate from the University of Stockholm in 1986 where he currently holds the position of a professor in the Department of Political Science. During the academic year 2008-2009 Ishtiaq Ahmed is a visiting senior research fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, on leave from Stockholm University. Some of his recent publications are:

• “Pakistan’s national identity” in International Review of Modern Sociology, Volume 1 No. 34. Spring 2008.
• “Group Representation in a Democracy?”, in Utsikt mot utveckling 29, Equal Representation. A Challenge to Democracy and Democracy Promotion, pp. 73-90. Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University 2007.
• “The Cultural and Political heritage of Sri Lanka”. in Utsikt mot utveckling 29, Equal Representation. A Challenge to Democracy and Democracy Promotion, pp. 119-130. Collegium for Development Studies, Uppsala University 2007.
• “The Lahore Effect”, in Seminar, No 567, November 2006, Dehli, India, pp. 29-37
• “Globalisering och fredsrörelsen i diasporan: Provsprängningarna av kärnvapen i Sydasien 1998” in Maria Borgström and Katrin Goldstein-Kyaga (eds.), Gränsöverskridande identiteter i globaliseringens tid: Ungdomar, migration och kampen för fred, Huddinge: Södertörns högskola, 2006, pp. 169-196.
• “Punjabi identities: Before and after the 1947 Partition of the Punjab”, in Troubled Times. Sustainable Development and Governance in the Age of Extremes. SDPI/Sama Editorial and Publishing Services, 2006. pp. 374-390 (pdf)