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Until mid-2011, Wajahat Ali wass a South Asia Research Fellow at the New America Foundation. He is a Research Consultant with the Pak Institute for Peace Studies in Islamabad. He is also the first Pakistani to have won The Asia Foundation’s William P. Fuller Fellowship in Conflict Resolution.

A print and broadcast journalist, Ali has worked with some of the leading media outlets in Pakistan. He joined DawnNews TV in March 2007 and launched his own primetime television show on Pakistan’s foreign policy and regional security challenges. Eye of the Storm extensively analyzed Islamabad’s role in the U.S.-led war on terror, conflict in Afghanistan, Islamist insurgency in the troubled northwestern territories of the country, Pakistan’s ties with Iran and its ambivalent relations with India.

Ali has also published research papers on Pakistan-based militant groups, their subtle indoctrination techniques and Islamabad’s responses to the threat of terrorism. He has also participated as a speaker in a number of seminars focusing on religious radicalization and extremism in his country and edited portions of a comprehensive research book, Understanding the Militants’ Media in Pakistan: Outreach and Impact.

Ali has spent ten years in journalism. Before relocating to Islamabad and joining DawnNews, he was working in Lahore as Assistant Foreign Editor with a leading Pakistani English-language broadsheet, Daily Times. Besides supervising the international desk, he wrote extensively on conflicts in Afghanistan and other areas in Pakistan’s neighborhood.