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

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

Early life and education

Akhtar did his bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honours in 1997 from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA. He got his master's degree in economics in 1999 from Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. Akhtar completed his PhD in political sociology 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.

Career

Akhtar is serving as associate professor of political economy at Quaid-i-Azam University's National Institute of Pakistan Studies, and has previously taught at the Lahore University of Management Sciences. His research focuses on colonial theory and history, state theory, political economy, rise of the middle classes, South Asian politics, identity formation, informal economy and social movements in Pakistan. Akhtar is Honorary Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies (ISAS), a research institute at the National University of Singapore(NUS).

Political struggle

People's Rights Movement (PRM)

Akhtar was a coordinator of the People's Rights Movement (PRM) from 2002 to 2012; PRM was a left-wing confederation of working-class movements in Pakistan. As a representative of PRM, Akhtar was a strong supporter of Okara's peasant movement and Anjuman Mazarain Punjab, (AMP). He organised rallies under the banner of PRM along with other trade unions against anti-worker policies and privatization of public utilities. 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. In February 2010, PRM merged with the National Workers Party and the Communist Mazdoor Kissan Party to form the Workers Party Pakistan. In 2012, the Workers Party Pakistan merged with other Left-wing parties to form the Awami Workers Party.

Workers Party Pakistan

Akhtar was associated with Workers Party Pakistan (WPP) from February 2010 to November 2012.

All-Pakistan Alliance for Katchi Abadis

Akhtar served as chairman of the All-Pakistan Alliance for Katchi Abadis which was an association of slum-dwellers from across Pakistan, formed in 1999 to protect the rights of the millions of slum residents across the country, against forced evictions and homelessness and to speak for the need for low-income housing in Pakistan.

Awami Workers Party

Akhtar served as the president of the Awami Workers Party's Punjab Executive Committee till January 2020.

Publications and Articles

Akhtar writes a weekly column for the Dawn newspaper, he also wrote in Monthly Review, New Internationalist, Tanqeed, and The Straits Times. He has published many research articles as a researcher and academic. 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.

References

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  59. "Review Of Aasim Sajjad Akhtar's The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society And Culture In Pakistan". Youth Ki Awaaz, 18 July, 2018. 18 July 2018.
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