He is an expert on the study of South Asia and its diaspora and has published several books on the topic of Pakistani nationalism, ethnicity, Islam and the War on Terror.
[4] He was then awarded a British Academy scholarship to study for a DPhil in Modern History at St Antony's College, Oxford University under the supervision of the Indian historian Professor Tapan Raychaudhuri.
[5] He remained at St Antony's College, on a Wingate Scholarship[6] as Associate Fellow of the Cecil Rhodes Chair of Race Relations and worked with the African historian Professor Terrence Ranger.
He has conducted a number of funded projects, working for various organisations, such as the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Economic Social Research Council, The European Commission and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
He was a member of the Expert Group on Humanities advising the European Commission on its FP 7 Research Programme[8] (2005-6) and is a Trustee of the Charles Wallace Pakistan Trust (2010).