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Air Commodore Khalid Iqbal
Air Cdre Khalid is Masters in Political Science along with War and Strategic Studies. He has also done Air WarCourse, Fellow of Air 
War College. Instructor’s Course. Senior Command & Staff course. Combat Commander’s Course. He has been a Directing Staff at various institutions of Pakistan Air Force. Presently he is a visiting faculty at:
- PAF air War College (Staff Wing &War Wing).
- School of Army Air Defence.
- Naval War College, Lahore.
- Quaid-i- Azam University (DSS Department).
- He is a regular contibutor to Opinion Maker and Member Board Of Advisors.
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Alan Hart
Alan Hart has been engaged with events in the Middle East and their global consequences and terrifying implications
– the possibility of a Clash of Civilisations, Judeo-Christian v Islamic, and, along the way, another great turning against the Jews – for nearly 40 years…
He’s been to war with the Israelis and the Arabs, but the learning experience he values most, and which he believes gave him rare insight, came from his one-to-one private conversations over the years with many leaders on both sides of the conflict. With, for example, Golda Meir, Mother Israel, and Yasser Arafat, Father Palestine. The significance of these private conversations was that they enabled him to be aware of the truth of what leaders really believed and feared as opposed to what they said in public for propaganda and myth-sustaining purposes.
It was because of his special relationships with leaders on both sides that, in 1980, he found himself sucked into the covert diplomacy of conflict resolution…Now Alan is an Institution in himself. Now, Alan is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Ayesha Sylvia Villalobos
Ayesha (Sylvia) Villalobos is a scholar and a political activist from Phillipines. She is a student of International
Relations with extensive research in Muslim world. She has her heart vibrating for Muslim unity and creation of a Muslim Common Market that she refers to as ‘Ummah.’ For the past sometime, she has been writing for Opinion Maker.
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Brig Asif Haroon Raja
Brig Asif Haroon Raja, a Member Board of Advisors Opinion Maker is Staff College and Armed Forces War
Coursequalified, holds MSc war studies degree; a second generation officer, he fought epic battle of Hilli in northwest East Bengal during 1971 war, in which Maj M. Akram received Nishan-e-Haider posthumously. He served as Directing Staff Command & Staff College, Defence Attaché Egypt and Sudan and Dean of Corps of Military Attaches in Cairo. He commanded the heaviest brigade in Kashmir. He is lingual and speaks English, Pashto and Punjabi fluently. He is author of books titled ‘Battle of Hilli’, ‘1948, 1965 & 1971 Kashmir Battles and Freedom Struggle’, ‘Muhammad bin Qasim to Gen Musharraf’, Roots of 1971 Tragedy’; has written number of motivational pamphlets. Draft of his next book ‘Tangled Knot of Kashmir’ is ready. He is a defence analyst and columnist and writes articles on security, defence and political matters for numerous international/national newspapers/websites.
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Brig Samson S Sharaf
Brigadier Samson Simon Sharaf is a retired infantry officer of Pakistan Army and honorary Colonel of the First Sindh
Regiment. He has the distinct honour of serving in the Military Operations Branch GHQ during the most interesting and eventful years of Pakistan’s history. Did his Post Graduation from Quaid e Azam University with distinction. His specialization is International Political Economy with sharp focus on Nuclear Policy Making and Security.
He is a frequent speaker in national and international seminars and writes through the framework of established theoretical paradigms. His hundreds of articles though futuristic have invariably been vindicated. He has also been a High Altitude mountaineer, trekked the entire perimeter of Pakistan and explored the harsh and difficult NARA Desert in the severest summer heat. He is Rector of St. Mary’s College, the first Catholic Higher education Institution in Pakistan and CEO of both Ecotech Iternational Inc. USA and WaterTech Private Limited, Pakistan. He is a pioneer of relief water in disaster areas.
Brig Sharaf is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Dr Franklin Lamb.
Dr. Franklin Lamb is Director of the Sabra Shatila Foundation in Lebanon. He is working with the Palestine Civil Rights
Campaign (PCRC), in Lebanon to encourage its Cabinet and Parliament to enact basic civil rights legislation for Palestinian refugees, including the right to work and to own a home. Dr Lamb is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Dr Muzaffar Iqbal
Muzaffar Iqbal is the founder-president of Center for Islam and Science (www.cis-ca.org), Canada, and editor of
Islam & Science, a semi-annual journal of Islamic perspectives on science and civilization. He received his Ph.D. in chemistry (University of Saskatchewan, Canada, 1983), and then left the field of experimental science to fully devote himself to study Islam, its spiritual, intellectual and scientific traditions.
Born in Lahore, Pakistan, he has lived in Canada since 1979. He has held academic and research positions at University of Saskatchewan (1979-1984), University of Wisconsin-Madison (1984-85), and McGill University (1986). During 1990-1999, he pursued his research and study on various aspects of Islam in Pakistan, where he also worked as Director, Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation (COMSTECH) between 1991-96 and as Director, Pakistan Academy of Sciences (1998-99).
During 1999-2001, Dr. Iqbal was Program Director (Muslim World) for the Science-Religion Course Program of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS), Berkeley, USA.
Dr. Iqbal has published books and papers on the relationship between Islam and science, Islam and the West, the contemporary situation of Muslims, and the history of Islamic science.
His publications include Islam and Science, God, Life and the Cosmos: Christian and Islamic Perspectives , Science and Islam, Dawn in Madinah: A Pilgrim’s Passage , The Making of Islamic Science (IBT, 2009) and a few more titles.
He is the General Editor of the forthcoming seven-volume Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur’an, the first English language reference work on the Qur’an based on fourteen centuries of Muslim reflection and scholarship. He is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Dr S. M. Rahman
Dr S. M. Rahman is Secretary General FRIENDS founded by General Mirza Aslam Beg, the former Chief of Army Staff,
Pakistan. He is widely acclaimed for his intellectual and scholastic contributions through various mediums. He is widely travelled and has lectured in many renowned universities of the world and Think Tanks.
He has authored several books in global and regional issues. Now he is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Dr Raja Muhammad Khan:
Dr Raja Muhammad Khan did his PhD from Karachi University in International Relations. Now he is an Associate Professor with National Defence University Islamabad. He focuses on South Asia, Central Asia and the Muslim World in general. He has been contributing to Opinion Maker for a long time where his writings are well received by the readers.
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Ellen H Brown
Ellen Brown is an attorney and the author of eleven books. In Web of Debt: The Shocking Truth About Our Money
System and How We Can Break Free, she shows how the Federal Reserve and “the money trust” have usurped the power to create money from the people themselves, and how we the people can get it back. Her websites are webofdebt.com, ellenbrown.com, and public-banking.com. Ellen H Brown is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Engineer Mansoor Malik
Mansoor Malik, is Member Board of Advisors, Opinion Maker. In brief, he has been Director General with over 33 year
of experience in planning, establishing and managing national level, strategic, high-tech organizations. Director General, Marketing & Industrial Relations Organization (MIRO). Commandant, College of Aeronautical Engineering, Risalpur.
Senior Engineering Manager, PAF Project where he was responsible for the smooth induction of F-16 Aircraft Weapons System in the PAF and making them fully operational.
His experience is very versatile in different fields of technology and education. He is consultant to number of organizations and the Universities of Pakistan.
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General Mirza Aslam Beg
General Mirza Aslam Beg is former Chief Of Army Staff, Pakistan. After his retirement, he formed FRIENDS, a Think
Tank based in Rawalpindi. Since then he has been writing for several news papers and magazines. His articles have also appeared in International papers of repute.
Now he is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Ghazala Awan
By Profession, Ghazala Awan is a practicing advocate of the High Court and Legal Consultant. She has over 13 years of legal practice. She is PGD in Human Right (UK), LL.B (Pakistan) and B.A (Pakistan). She is member of International Bar Association (London), Human Right Lawyers Association (London), Sindh Bar Association (Pakistan) and Karachi Bar Association (Pakistan).
She is also Legal Advisor to Opinion Maker.
Ghazala is also member of St. John’s Ambulance, Executive member (ex) International Human Right Watch and Volunteer to Safer London Foundation (London). She has also been appointed Ambassador for World Alliance For Peace for Pakistan.
Through her writings, she displays a level of intellect and writes on various issues and current affairs for Opinion Maker.
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Hamid Waheed
Hamid Waheed has done his masters in International Relations, his area of focus is on South Asia, Central Asia and the Muslim World in general. He is a keen follower of war on terror and has written extensively on this. Hamid did his post graduate diplomas from Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore. Now he has been writing for past 10 years or so and is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Group Captain S. M. Hali
Group Captain S. M. Hali has served in the Flying Branch of Pakistan Air Force. During his service, he has held various command, staff and training appointments including Air and Naval Attaché at Embassy of Pakistan Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1991 to 1995
. He is a graduate of PAF as well as Joint Services Staff College. After retirement from PAF, he completed his M Phil in Mass Communication and did broadcast journalism courses in USA. He has been the chief editor of a news wire service INP and established a private channel, a number of FM stations and APP's video news service. Besides Opinion Maker, he contributes regular articles to other national English and Urdu newspapers. He also hosts a weekly English TV talk show "Defence and Diplomacy" on PTV News.
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Hanan Habibzai
Hanan Habibzai was born in 1979 in Baghlan Province. At the Soviet invasion, 
his family entered Pakistan he grew up in a refugee camp near Peshawar. After completing his secondary education in Peshawar, he studied at Kabul University. Just before the fall of Taliban regime in 2001, Habibzai began working with the BBC World Service as a correspondent and as a freelancereporter for Reuters in Afghanistan. Currently he is based in London, writing on the conflict in Afghanistan and the regional politics. Habibzai is known as one of the key critics of warlords and war criminals in the country who are still holding power. While in the UK, since last year he is working for Radio liberty as freelance correspondent covering the Afghan and Pakistan related issues around Europe and the UK. During his work for Radio Free Europe he covered Afghanistan: London Conference in the beginning of 2010. He also produced several stories on Illegal migrants and the business of human traffickers.
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Kourosh Ziabari
Kourosh Ziabari is an Iranian freelance journalist and media correspondent. His articles and interviews have
appeared on a number of media outlets and news websites including Tehran Times, Press TV, Global Research and Foreign Policy Journal and Opinion Maker
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Maidhc O Cathail Prof
Maidhc Ó Cathail is a writer and educator. Born and raised in Ireland, he has been living in Japan since 1999. In
addition to writing a monthly column for a popular Irish language magazine, his work is regularly published in Foreign Policy Journal, Islam Times, Khaleej Times, Opinion Maker, Salem-News.com and many more. To read more of his writing, see Maidhc Ó Cathail: Writing and Analysis.
He is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker and some other publications.
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Moin Ansari
Mr. Moin Ansari is an investigative historian, political scientist and an expert on international relations focusing on South Asia, and the Greater Middle East. He has three Bachelor's, two Master's degrees, and is a candidate for a Doctorate. His forte is Strategy and Vision. Mr. Ansari is an activist working for Muslim and American causes, and advises Pakistani political parties and institutions on Strategic Thinking and Policy Institute (stapons.org). He works and lives in the New York Area. He is the Editor In Chief of Rupee News (http://www.rupeenews.com) and contributes regularly to various local and international journals including Pakistan Ledger (http://www.pakistanledger.com), Pakistan Patriot (Http://www.pakistanpatriot.com) and the Opinion-Maker.org
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Dr. Roberts was appointed Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury by President Ronald Reagan. He served in the
Congressional Staff of the House and Senate. He was Associate Editor and Columnist for the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week, the Scripps Howard News Service, Creators Syndicate, and for major newspapers in France and Italy. He was Senior Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, for 33 years and occupied the William E. Simon chair of Political Economy in the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University for 12 years.
Dr. Roberts has also had academic appointments at Virginia Tech, Tulane University, University of New Mexico, and George Mason University. He was a member of Merton College, Oxford University, during 1963-65. In 1969 he presented a Special University Lecture to the faculty and student body of Oxford University. He was awarded the US Treasury’s Silver Medal in 1982 and the French Legion of Honor in 1987.
Roberts, besides other publications, also contributes to Opinion Maker.
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Peter Chamberlin
Peter Chamberlin has been actively opposing all non-defensive war most of his life. Peter’s first petition (as a teenager) was a 
success in his local community, raising several hundred signatures protesting Nixon’s scapegoating of Lt. Calley for the My Lai incident. He has been very active since 1982 writing letters to newspapers and magazines, as well as recalcitrant national leaders, speaking-out against war, nuclear war, and the impending violent collapse of the Western empire (that is now at hand). Chamberlin has been writing for the Internet since 2005. Started There Are No Sunglasses in 2008.
He is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Khalil Nouri
Khalil Nouri was born in an Afghan political family belonging to the Mohamadzai clan of the Pashtun Durani confederacy. His father, 
uncles, and cousins were all career diplomats in the Afghan government. His father was also amongst the very first in 1944 to open and work in the Afghan Embassy in Washington D.C., and subsequently his diplomatic career was in Moscow, Pakistan, London and Indonesia. Throughout all this time, since 1960’s, Khalil grew to be exposed in Afghan politics and foreign policy. During the past 35 years he has been closely following the dreadful situation in Afghanistan. He is a Boeing Engineer and seeking his MA in foreign policy.
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Saeed Qureshi
The writer is a Dallas-based freelance journalist and a former diplomat writing mostly on International Affairs with specific focus on
Pakistan and the United State. In Pakistan, he had worked for several years as a senior correspondent for daily “The Muslim” and “Pakistan Observer.” In 1992 he founded his own English opinion weekly Diplomatic Times and was its Editor and Publisher until 2001 when he moved to the United States.
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Sohail Parwaz
Sohail Parwaz is a consummate professional writer, freelance columnist, analyst and media strategist. He is in the field since twenty years or more. He has been contributing his columns for the leading national dailies of Pakistan. His column “Track 3” appeared for almost four years on daily The Post’s broadsheets. He also makes documentaries and dramas in collaboration with a leading film TV director/ actor of Pakistan Mr. Jamal Shah.
Very few know that Sohail’s earlier profession was army, from where he sought retirement as a infantry field officer after serving for good about quarter of a century.
He served at important position in the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate, besides looking after their magazine The Monthly Press Review as the editor, he has been working on different projects of ISPR.
Currently he is scripting a fiction with Pakistan, India and USA as the central characters of the story. Sohail has been regularly writing for Opinion Maker since 2008.
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Naveed Tajammal
Naveed Tajammal has over 26 years of experience in Investigative Historical Research. His primary focus is on Indus
Cvilisation but his grasp of the histories of the world are amazing. He has been writing for various papers and publications. Presently he is on the panel of Advisors of Opinion Maker since its inception.
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Yasmeen Ali
Yasmeen Ali has done her Masters in Mass Communications. She is also a Law graduate who has worked in Advertising Agencies and Multinationals for over 25 years. Presently she is teaching in Beacon House National University Lahore.
Besides writing for the English dailies, she also writes for Opinion-Maker.Org She owns and moderates political blogs.
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Lawrence Davidson
Lawrence Davidson is a Professor of Middle East History at West Chester University in West ChesterPennsylvania.He is
the author of America’s Palestine: Popular and Official Perceptions from Balfour to Israeli Statehood (University Press of Florida, 2001), Islamic Fundamentalism (Greenwood Press, 2003), and, co-author with Arthur Goldschmidt of the Concise History of the Middle East, 8th and 9th Editions (Westview Press, 2006 and 2009). His latest book is entitled Foreign Policy, Inc.: Privatizing American National Interest (University of Kentucky Press, 2009). Professor Davidson travels often and widely in the Middle East. He also has taken on the role of public intellectual in order to explain to American audiences the impact of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East.
Davidson is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
A Vietnam veteran, is a widely acclaimed author, attorney, investment banker, educator and consultant to
government, corporate and union leaders worldwide. He served for seven years as counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance. He is widely published in the trade, popular and academic press. His latest book is Guilt by Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit Took America to War. His previous books include Democracy at Risk: Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street and The Ownership Solution: Toward a Shared Capitalism for the 21st Century. Topical commentaries appear on the Criminal State website. Jeff is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Gordon Duff
Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His career has included extensive
experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or acting as diplomatic officer of UN humanitarian groups. Gordon Duff’s articles are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. He is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest. He is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker
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Wayne Madsen
Wayne Madsen is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. He has written for several renowned papers and blogs.
Madsen is a regular contributor on Russia Today. He has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News 
and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. Madsen has taken on Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity on their television shows. He has been invited to testifty as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government.
As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently worked for the National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, Department of State, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation.
Madsen is a member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Association for Intelligence Officers (AFIO), and the National Press Club. He is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker.
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Yvonne Ridley
Yvonne Ridley is the European President of the International Muslim Women’s Union who came to fame when she
ventured into Afghanistan after 9/11 and was captured by Taliban. Later released and then she studied Islam and became a Muslim. She is an activist, present everywhere against tyranny, injustice and oppression.
She is a regular contributor to Opinion Maker
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Usama Nizamani
Usama Nizamani, 22 year old is a student of (B.S) program in Psychology. He is also a member of the newly formed 
geostrategic magazine, "The Fortress-Magazine". He takes active participation in social work, lately he is working with the NWF- Nizamani Welfare Foundation, in order to build and establish town's first library. He takes a deep interest in writing articles on various subjects such as political, social, geostrategic, and of psychological importance, which could help in the formation of knowledgeable society. Usama is an adherer to Iqbal's work and ideology and envisions to inspire a new generation motivated by the ideals of Dr. Allama Muhammad Iqbal, however, he believes it could only be done through the power of knowledge-combined with systematic education and training of self and collective discipline.
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