Syed Irfan Ashraf

Syed Irfan Ashraf is assistant professor at the department of journalism and mass communication at the University of Peshawar. He is a freelance journalist with fourteen years’ field experience in print and electronic media such as Dawn News, Press TV (Iranian) and the New York Times. He writes regularly for the oped pages of the English daily, Dawn.

Using terrorism strategically

In the absence of effective political institutional input to set up mechanisms able to handle terrorism, Pakistan has given the military a free hand to maintain the status quo.

By Syed Irfan Ashraf

/ 26 Dec 2014

Afghanistan: local solutions needed to settle a regional problem

Any militant force fighting against NATO forces in Afghanistan has to abide by the Taliban war codes which compel outsiders to fight under only one banner, that of Emarat-i-Islami. Hitherto, this strategy has damaged but also benefited the allied forces by keeping the lethal Al Qaida and other ant

By Syed Irfan Ashraf

/ 5 Jun 2012