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A native of Pakistan, Zulfiqar has a long history of political activism,
beginning with his active involvement in the student movement against
General Zia's military regime in 1981-82. He came to the U.S. as an
undergraduate student at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. His
multi-disciplinary undergraduate thesis combined the study of literature,
history and politics to understand the development of the modern world since
the French Revolution. After working with a publisher in New York for a
year, Zulfiqar joined the political science department of the University of
Chicago as a doctoral candidate and completed his Master's degree in
Comparative Politics in 1992. The primary focus of Zulfiqar's academic and
professional career has been the history and politics of South Asia.
For the past six years, Zulfiqar has been the primary caregiver for his
young daughter, while working from home on a number of part-time and
flexible projects that have included work as an editor and writer for a
number of not-for-profit
groups like the Global Fund for Women, Asian American and Pacific Islanders
In Philanthropy (an affinity group of The Council on Foundations). As part
of the high-tech gold rush, he was also an independent consultant with
webmama.com, an internet company specializing in website placement in search
engines.
Most recently, (April - July 2001), he worked on an International Labor
Organization funded research/mapping project on labor organizations within
the informal
sector of Pakistan's economy. He has written essays on politics and
literature for various Pakistani newspapers and magazines.
Zulfiqar joined the Nautilus staff on October 22, 2001.
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