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Naveed Ahmad is an investigative journalist and academic. Besides stringing for The Guardian, South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and ISN (Switzerland), he is a columnist for Pakistan’s largest selling daily The News newspaper and Turkish-language daily Zaman and Today’s Zaman. His work has also appeared in The Atlantic Monthly & Foreign Policy. He has been a special Investigative Correspondent for The News newspaper and lately for Geo News.
He co-founded Silent Heroes, Invisible Bridges, a recipient of the UN X-Cultural Reporting Award 2010 for its work on inter-religious and inter-cultural success stories themed around the alliance of civilizations.
He is a recipient of the Panos Media Fellowship on Conflict Resolution in 2006, Washington’s National Press Center’s Fellowship on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Arms Control in 2004, and Jefferson Fellowship on ‘Challenges of Globalisation’ in 2000. He is currently contributing to journals for Central Asia- Caucasus Institute (cacianalyst.org) Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC.
