Email Password
- Mr. Quraishi currently is a Director and Senior Research Fellow at Project For Pakistan In 21st Century, better known as Project Pakistan 21, an independent Pakistani think tank based in the federal capital, Islamabad.
- A columnist for The News International, Pakistan's biggest English-language daily, and is a frequent television commentator.
- A public policy consultant
- Participated in at least one round of the so called 'track II' diplomacy between Pakistan and the United States.
- Participated in closed door, prewar discussion panels on post-Saddam Hussain Iraq in the year 2000-2001. Mr. Quraishi was probaby the only Pakistani analyst to sit in on sessions involving participants from mostly the Gulf Arab region.
BRIEF INTRODUCTION
- Media applications in three languages, TV & print: Arabic, Urdu, and English
- Middle East politics
- Iraq/Lebanon
- Pakistan/Afghanistan
- Iran
- Central Asia
- U.S. politics
Pakistan foreign policy
Pakistani political system
Pakistani policy in Central Asia & Middle East
Majored in politics and Middle East history.
- A frequent political commentator for Geo Television Network In Pakistan
- Has written for newspapers, appeared on television and radio in the Middle East, Pakistan, China, US, Britian, Iran and Russia.
- Appeared as a guest speaker at the Eurasian Media Forum 2009 in Almaty, Kazakhstan
- Writes a weekly column for The News International, Islamabad's influential daily newspaper. His columns also appear on several major Pakistni Web news portals, including AhmedQuraishi.com
Extensively covered the politics of the Middle East, specializing in incisive, rigorously analytical, and investigative reporting. · Worked for two major Arabic-language newspapers based in Kuwait City, Al Seyassah & Al Rai Al Aam. Exploiting the emirate's liberal press laws, Quraishi worked on stories rarely explored and published in Arab print media in the start-to-mid 1990s, for example: - The Japanese Red Army history in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon (1997); the report led to the intervention of the Anti-Terrorism Unit in the Japanese Foreign Ministry and the arrest of three Japanese fugitives. - An in-depth survey of separatist militant ethnic groups inside Iran (1996); the published report was one of the rare insider reports on the treatment of Arab-majority areas of Iran by the government in Tehran. - The safe havens of Turkey's separatist PKK elements in Syria (1998); Mr. Quraishi broke the news of the contents of a dossier delivered by Turkish president Sulaiman Demirel to Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak containing evidence supporting Ankara’s claims Damascus supported separatist terrorists. - A story on the economic, media, and political emergence of smaller Arab states in the 1990s, overshadowing the traditional superiority of larger Arab nations (1999). · Worked for Middle East's two main Arabic-language television news networks: As the Pakistan correspondent and analyst for the Qatar-based Aljazeera satellite news network during the Afghanistan war in 2001, and in 2002 as as the Pakistan bureau chief for the Abu Dhabi Satellite News Television. · Closely covered the Iraq story since 1992, interviewing almost all the principal international players involved in the Iraq story. In 2003, Mr. Quraishi covered the invasion of Iraq as an embedded reporter accredited by the U.S. army, and stayed in Iraq for six months after the fall of Baghdad in April 2003.
Covered the Israel-Hezbollah war for 7 weeks in July-August 2006, based in Beirut and southern Lebanon; met all the principals in the Syrian and Lebanese political establishments and conducted four, forty-minute live television shows from the Syrian and Lebanese capitals, broadcast on PTV World, the international arm of the state broadcaster in Pakistan.
Mr. Quraishi was born in Kuwait City in May 1972 to parents who came from northern Pakistan. His father was a WWII veteran who fought in Iraq, Palestine, and Burma, resigning his post on the eve of Pakistan's Independence in 1947.
