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| work_institution = Visiting Professor, Government College University Lahore, [[Pakistan]]<br />
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'''Ishtiaq Ahmed''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|اشتیاق احمد}}}};) is a [[Sweden|Swedish]] [[political scientist]] and author of Pakistani descent. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. He is [[Professor Emeritus]] of [[Political Science]] at [[Stockholm University]].<ref name="UStockholm">[http://www.statsvet.su.se/hemsidor/ishtiaq_ahmed_right.htm Entry at University of Stockholm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070705071233/http://www.statsvet.su.se/hemsidor/ishtiaq_ahmed_right.htm }} with the University of Stockholm's homepage</ref><ref name="Bengalis were in majority">{{cite web |last1=Hasan |first1=Shazia |title=Bengalis were in majority, but Bangla was not made national language: Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1741461 |website= |publisher=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |access-date=26 April 2023 |language=en }}</ref><ref name="‘Hindu, Sikh pressure">{{cite news |last1=Thapar |first1=Karan |title='Hindu, Sikh pressure led to Punjab's partition' |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1068421/hindu-sikh-pressure-led-to-punjabs-partition |access-date=26 April 2023 |work=[[The Express Tribune]] |language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Ahmed was born in [[Lahore]], Pakistan, in 1947.<ref name="OUP">{{cite web |title=The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed |url=https://oup.com.pk/the-punjab-bloodied-partitioned-and-cleansed.html |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |language=en}}</ref> He belongs to the Punjabi [[Arain]] tribe.<ref>{{cite news |last=Ahmed |first=Ishtiaq |title=There is many a slip betwixt cup and lip |work=Daily Times |location=Pakistan |url=http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/18-Apr-2006/comment-there-is-many-a-slip-betwixt-cup-and-lip-ishtiaq-ahmed |url-status=dead |access-date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715223745/http://archives.dailytimes.com.pk/editorial/18-Apr-2006/comment-there-is-many-a-slip-betwixt-cup-and-lip-ishtiaq-ahmed |archive-date=15 July 2014 |quote=Additionally, the Arain group, to which I belong [...]}}</ref><br />
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==Books==<br />
His books include:<br />
*''People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post-Colonial Migration'' (2004, chapter six, "Forced migration and ethnic cleansing in Lahore in 1947 : some first person accounts").<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Murphy |first1=Anne |title=People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial, and Post-Colonial Migration. Edited by Ian Talbot and Shinder Thandi. Subcontinent Divided: New Beginning. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2004. xx, 238 pp. Rs 350 (cloth). |journal=The Journal of Asian Studies |volume=64 |issue=1 |pages=240–241 |doi=10.1017/S0021911805000628 |s2cid=162416728 |url=https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021911805000628 |language=en |issn=0021-9118}}</ref><br />
*''The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia'' (2011, editor)<ref name="Religion-Politics Interface">{{cite journal |last1=GHOSH |first1=PARTHA S |title=Religion-Politics Interface |journal=Economic and Political Weekly |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=34–36 |jstor=23065604 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23065604 |issn=0012-9976}}</ref><br />
*''The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed'' (2012)<ref name="Blood on the tracks of history">{{cite news |last1=Ali |first1=Mahir |title=Blood on the tracks of history |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/711379/blood-on-the-tracks-of-history |access-date=26 April 2023 |publisher=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=White |first1=Jenny |title=Turkey in Turmoil |publisher=De Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-065450-9 |page=306 |url=https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110654509-015 |chapter=Turkey in the 1970s: The Cultural Logic of Factionalism|doi=10.1515/9783110654509-015 |s2cid=241571497 }}</ref> It won a prize for best non-fiction book of 2012 and the Coca Cola Prize at the [[Karachi Literature Festival]] in 2013.<ref>{{cite web |title=klf 2013 {{!}} Karachi Literature Festival |url=https://www.karachiliteraturefestival.com/klf_archive/klf-2013/ |publisher=[[Karachi Literature Festival]] |access-date=26 April 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Salman |first1=Peerzada |title='Pakistan is open for business' |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/786908/pakistan-is-open-for-business |access-date=26 April 2023 |work=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]] |language=en}}</ref><br />
*''Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History'' (2020)<ref name="Watch: 'Jinnah Did Not">{{cite news |last1=Thapar |first1=Karan |title=Watch: 'Jinnah Did Not Just Want Partition, He Wanted to Dismember India' |url=https://thewire.in/history/jinnah-partition-ishtiaq-ahmed|access-date=26 April 2023 |work=[[The Wire (India)]]}}</ref><ref name="How Jinnah Dismissed">{{cite news |last1=Ahmed |first1=Ishtiaq |title=How Jinnah Dismissed Congress's Minority Rights Proposals to Justify Two-Nation Theory |url=https://thewire.in/books/muhammad-ali-jinnah-foundational-two-nation-speech-ishtiaq-ahmed-book-excerpt |access-date=26 April 2023 |work=[[The Wire (India)]] }}</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*{{official website|https://www.ishtiaqahmed.se/}}<br />
*[http://su.diva-portal.org/smash/person.jsf?dswid=8420&pid=authority-person%3A91156 Ahmed, Ishtiaq] at [[Stockholm University]]<br />
*[https://www.thefridaytimes.com/author/ishtiaq-ahmed/ Ishtiaq Ahmed], articles at ''[[The Friday Times]]''<br />
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