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About the Author

ISHTIAQ AHMED is professor emeritus of political science at Stockholm University. He is an honorary senior fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), National University of Singapore, where he worked as senior research professor during 2007-10. He is currently visiting professor at Government College University, Lahore. He holds a PhD in political science from Stockholm University. He has published seven books, including The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed: Unravelling the 1947 Tragedy through Secret British Reports and First-Person Accounts and Pakistan: The Garrison State Origins, Evolution, Consequences, 1947-2011.His research interests cover political Islam, ethnicity and nationalism, human, minority and group rights, Partition studies and the Punjabi contribution to cinema. He writes regularly for Naya Dour, for the Lahore-based English-language daily Daily Times and the weekly Friday Times.