PrintImtiaz Ali
Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow, March 2009 - January 2010
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Countries: Pakistan
Imtiaz Ali is a Pashtun journalist who specializes in Pakistan's volatile Tribal belt and North West Frontier Province along the Afghan border. Ali's project will explore the causes of the radicalization of the Pakistani Pashtun people, the nature of the insurgency on the Pakistani side of the border, and its connection with the Afghan Taliban, as well as with local and global terrorists' organizations like al-Qaeda.
Ali joined the BBC Pashto Service in late 2001 and reported extensively on the rise of the "Pakistani Taliban" and Pakistan's military operations against al-Qaeda operatives and their local Taliban supporters in the tribal region, also known as Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Ali has also worked for Pakistan's premier English-language newspapers, The News and Dawn. His recent articles have appeared on Yale Global Online, the Jamestown Foundation's Global Terrorism Analysis and The Sentinel of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point.
Ali earned two M.A. degrees, in journalism and political science, and a B.A. in law from Peshawar University. He was a Knight Journalism Fellow at the John S. Knight Journalism Fellowship Program for Professional Journalists at Stanford University during 2006-7 and a Yale World Fellow in 2008.
Publications:
- "Talibanization: A Wake-Up Call for Pakistan." The Majalla, May 2009.
- "Preparing the Mujahidin: The Taliban's Military Field Manuel" CTC Sentinel, Vol. 1 (No. 10), September 2008.
- "The Taliban's Versatile Spokesman: A Profile of Muslim Khan" CTC Sentinel, Vol. 2 (No. 1), February 2009.
- "Militant or Peace Broker? A Profile of the Swat Valley's Maulana Sufi Muhammad," Terrorism Monitor, Vol. 7 (No. 1), March 26, 2009.
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USIP Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow Imtiaz Ali testified on July 29, 2009 before the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs about "Responding to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Crisis in Pakistan. |
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July 14, 2009
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July 17, 2009
Fighting in Pakistan’s tribal areas rages on, as government forces step up their battle against Taliban fighters and other militants. Pakistan authorities recently said it will go after Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in his stronghold South Waziristan along the Afghan border. USIP’s Imtiaz Ali wrote about Mehsud in Foreign Policy magazine, arguing why this man is the new "public enemy" number one to Washington, D.C. and Islamabad. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Identity, Ethnicity, and Culture, Religion, Terrorism and Political Extremism
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July 10, 2009
What is the potential for political negotiations and reconciliation to resolve the armed conflict raging on both sides of the Durand Line that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan? |
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June 11, 2009
At least 2.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) have now been registered from recent fighting in Swat, Buner and Dir areas. This is in addition to another 553,000 people registered as displaced in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), bringing the total number of displaced to 2.9 million since August 2008. Countries: Pakistan
| Issue Areas: Humanitarian Efforts, International and Regional Organizations
| Programs: Grants & Fellowships, Jennings Randolph Senior Fellowship Program
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