Ahmed Rashid

Ahmed Rashid, the Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review, is the author of two recent bestsellers, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia (Yale) and Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia (Penguin).

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2002

2001

  • Dispatches

    September 27, 2001

    The events of September 11 as viewed from around the world.

  • Pakistan, the Taliban and the US

    September 20, 2001

    If Islamabad heeds Washington's war demands, it risks likely internal revolt.

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