Khaled Ahmed, Consulting Editor Daily Times and The Friday Times, with a 30-year career in journalism, has written on the ideology and politics of Pakistan. His books include Pakistan: Behind the Ideological Mask (Vanguard Books: Lahore, 2000) and Pakistan: The State in Crisis (Vanguard Books: Lahore, 2001). From 1991 to 1993 he was one of the founder members of Indo-Pak Neemrana Dialogue, track-two diplomacy. In 1995 was a participant at a New Delhi discussion on Indo-Pak relations organised by Time magazine. In 1995 was member of the Pakistan delegation to Moscow and read a paper there on Pak-Russian bilateral trade. In 1996 he was a SAARC observer of the Bangladesh national elections and wrote the SAARC report on the status of the minorities in Bangladesh. He has lectured at the Civil Service Academy, Lahore, Administrative Staff College, Lahore, the Naval War College, Lahore regularly over the years. He has contributed to panel discussions at the National Defence College, Islamabad, including the subject of International Security Systems and Security in South Asia, in 2003.

He gave a lecture at Berkeley University on Jihad in February 2001 and attended a Brookings conference on US and the Islamic World at Doha in November 2002. He spoke on Media in Pakistan in Boston, US, 2004; spoke at War College, Washington, in 2007. He was scholar at Woodrow Wilson Centre, Washington, in 2006.