Ishtiaq Ahmed

Prof. Dr. Ishtiaq Ahmed, Professor Emeritus at Stockholm University, holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University, where he was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science from 1987 to 2010.

The battle for democracy and human rights must go on

Democracy as an organizing principle of government is conventionally associated with Athens in ancient Greece. Pericles’ speech famously adumbrated the virtues of democracy, emphasizing the freedom of Athenian citizens to

By Ishtiaq Ahmed

/ 2 Oct 2024

Kartarpur Sahib corridor

28 November 2018 will be recorded in the annals of history as the crucial step taken by the Pakistani and Indian governments to reconnect the historical Punjab, which in 1947

By Ishtiaq Ahmed

/ 5 Dec 2018

Pran Nevile, 1922-2018

Whenever I visit Lahore, I visit Temple Road where I was born, look up my class fellows from school, college and university and try to meet them. I have the

By Ishtiaq Ahmed

/ 16 Oct 2018

War Story from 1971

It is normal to hear about the great patriotic wars of 1947-1965, 1971 and the Kargil mini-war of 1999. That is the nationalist or state narrative. But men

By Ishtiaq Ahmed

/ 8 Sep 2018