Aasim Sajjad Akhtar

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar is a professor, left wing politician and columnist based in Pakistan. He served as the president of the Awami Workers Party's Punjab Executive Committee till January 2020.[1] Akhtar is associate professor of political economy at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
عاصم سجاد اختر
NationalityPakistani
Alma materSOAS, University of London
Yale University
Northwestern University
OccupationAssociate Professor at Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan
Known forFormer President, Awami Workers Party Punjab

Early life and education

Akhtar did his bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honours in 1997 from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.[2] He got his master's degree in economics in 1999 from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.[3][4] Akhtar completed his PhD in 2008 from SOAS, University of London at the South Asia Institute, where his thesis was titled The Overdeveloping State: The Politics of Common Sense in Pakistan, 1971-2007.[5]

Career

Akhtar is serving as associate professor of political economy at Quaid-i-Azam University's National Institute of Pakistan Studies,[6] and has previously taught at the Lahore University of Management Sciences.[7]

Political struggle

In November 2007, he was arrested in Lahore with seventy other civil society activists for participating in an anti-government meeting held at the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan during the Pakistani state of emergency, 2007.[8][9] Akhtar was a coordinator of the People's Rights Movement, a left-wing confederation of working-class movements in Pakistan. In February 2010, PRM merged with the National Workers Party and the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party to form the Workers Party Pakistan.[10] In 2012, the Workers Party Pakistan merged with other Left-wing parties to form the Awami Workers Party.[11] Akhtar is a strong supporter of Okara's peasant movement.[12]

Publications and Articles

Akhtar also writes a weekly column for the Dawn newspaper,[13] he also wrote in Monthly Review,[14] New Internationalist,[15] Tanqeed,[16] and The Straits Times.[17] He has published many research articles as a researcher and academic.[18][19] He has published a book named "The Politics of Common Sense" which describes the evolution of structure of power in Pakistan over the past four decades.[20][21]

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References
  1. "AWP body elected". Dawn. 20 March 2016. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
  2. Northwestern University (Evanston (1997). "Annual commencement / Northwestern University". Evanston, Ill. : The University.
  3. Lancaster, John (8 April 2003). "Pakistan's Modern Feudal Lords". Washington Post.
  4. "Aasim Sajjad CV" (PDF). National Institute of Pakistan Studies. 2016-08-29.
  5. "Completed PhD Thesis 2007-2008". SOAS South Asia Institute. Retrieved 28 August 2016.
  6. "Faculty – NIPS". nips.edu.pk. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  7. "Aasim Sajjad Akhtar: "The Symbiotic Relationship Between 'Counter-Terrorism' and Neoliberal Development: The Case of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC)"". www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de. 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  8. "Students' rare show against emergency". Dawn. 2007-11-06. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  9. "LUMS Review - Emergency Rule Turns Ugly". LUMS Review. 2007-11-04. Archived from the original on 2016-09-17. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  10. "Salvation of masses lies in changing status quo". Dawn. 2010-02-27. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  11. "Three leftist parties to merge". Dawn. 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  12. "The long drawn struggle | Encore | thenews.com.pk". www.thenews.com.pk. May 1, 2016.
  13. "News stories for Aasim Sajjad Akhtar". Dawn. Retrieved 2016-08-29.
  14. Asia, Akhtar (1 June 2018). "The China–Pakistan Economic Corridor". Monthly Review.
  15. "The democracy killers". New Internationalist. 2 September 2002.
  16. Aasim, Akhtar. "Failed State Or Fragmented Hegemony".
  17. "'Normal' must look different after the crisis". The Straits Times. 31 March 2020.
  18. "Aasim Sajjad" (PDF).
  19. "2019.23: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, When a Movement Stops Moving: The Okara Peasant Struggle Twenty Years On". CAS.
  20. Akhtar, Aasim Sajjad. "The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan". Cambridge Core.
  21. "The Politics of Common Sense: Everyday life in contemporary Pakistan | SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk.
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