Ahmad, Khurshid

Khurshīd Ahmad,PhD, DSc, NI, is a Pakistani economist, philosopher, and an Islamic activist who helped to develop Islamic economic jurisprudence as an academic discipline. A senior conservative figure, he has been long-standing party worker of the Jamaat-e-Islami (JeI), the far-right political party, where he successfully ran for Senate in the general elections held in 2002 on a platform of Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA). He served in the Senate until 2012. He played his role as a policy adviser in Zia administration when he chaired the Planning Commission, focusing on the role of Islamising the country's national economy in the 1980s.