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Visiting Senior Fellow: Professor Ghani JafarBorn on August 8, 1952 at Campbellpur (now, ‘Attock City’), Punjab, Pakistan; he has earlier been Senior Research Analyst, Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), Islamabad (2000-2007); Creative Director, Manhattan Pakistan (Pvt.), Ltd (1999-2000); Senior Research Analyst, IRS, Islamabad (1996-1999); Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Strategic Studies, Islamabad (ISSI), (1994-1996); Editor, Pulse Weekly, Islamabad (1992-1994); Executive Editor, The Muslim, Islamabad (1990-1992); Assistant Editor, The Muslim, Islamabad (1989-1990); Diplomatic Correspondent, The Pakistan Times, Islamabad (1988-1989); Deputy Editor, Pakistan Observer, Islamabad; Research Analyst, IRS (1982-1987); City Editor, The Muslim, Islamabad (1980-1981); Staff Reporter, The Muslim, Islamabad (1979-1980).
His earlier work experience comprises American Language Instructor at the Imperial Iranian Air Force Language Training School, Tehran (1978-1979); part-time employee at Keyhan International, Tehran (1978-1979); and Advocate, Rawalpindi District Courts.
Ghani Jafar’s professional qualifications include Executive Course; Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, September-December 2003 (Class 2003-3); International Security; Summer School, July-August, 1996; University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK; Editor as a Journalist and a Manager; Course organized by Thomson Foundation, March-May 1992; Cardiff, Wales, UK; American Language Instructor; Course conducted by Imperial Iranian Air Force (IIAF) Language School; 1978; Tehran, Iran.
Apart from a large number of research studies in both Pakistani and international journals of repute; reports, editorials, comments, analyses and op. ed. pieces in newspapers and periodicals going back to 1970; he has authored, The Indus Valley: Moment of Truth; 2005, Redrose Publications, Islamabad; Made in Hell: the Brahmanic-Talmudist Alliance; 2002, Redrose Publications, Islamabad; The Sikh Volcano; 1987; Vanguard Publishers, Lahore; co-authored and edited: Pakistan: Countering Global Terrorism; 2006, IRS, Islamabad; Elections in India – 1984-85; 1987; Institute of Regional Studies (IRS), Islamabad; co-edited: Jinnah as a Parliamentarian; 1976; Azfar Publishers, Islamabad; and, contributed to: Dev Raj Dahal and Nishchal Nath Panday (Editors), “Comprehensive Security in South Asia”, Comprehensive Security in South Asia; 2006, Manohar, New Delhi, “The Storming of the Golden Temple”, The Rise of Hindutva Fundamentalism; 2003, IRS, Islamabad: 294-441.
He has presented papers on “Peaceful Development and Security in the Asia Pacific Region” at the International Forum of China Association for Military Science, Xiangshan-Beijing, October 2006; “Comprehensive Security in South Asia”, at the Regional Workshop on Comprehensive Security in South Asia, jointly organized by the Institute of Foreign Affairs and Friedich-Ebert-Stiftung, Katmandu, Nepal, November 19, 2004; “Regional Peace and Stability: the Pipeline Promise” at the IRS-IPIS joint forum at the Institute for Political and International Studies (IPIS), Tehran, June 24, 2003; visited NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and Shape (Supreme Headquarters of Allied Powers Europe), Belgium; August 1996; was in a three-member academic delegation that visited China and Japan for a broad-range interaction on peace and security with policy-making institutions at Beijing, Shanghai and Tokyo, May 1996; visited USA as State Department’s guest on their ‘International Visitors Program’; 1991; included in the delegation accompanying the President of Pakistan on his State Visit to Tokyo; 1990; participated in two international seminars organized by Marga Institute, Colombo; 1986; was member of Pakistan’s official delegation to international seminar on ‘Security of Small States’ organized by the Bangladesh Institute of International Strategic Studies (BIISS), Dhaka; 1985; and represented Pakistan in ‘International Seminar of Young Journalists’; Istanbul, Turkey; September 1981.