Selig Harrison

Selig S. Harrison has covered Afghanistan since 1963. A former South Asia bureau chief of the Washington Post, he is the author of Out of Afghanistan and In Afghanistan's Shadow. He is director of the Asia Program at the Center for International Policy.

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  • The Ethnic Split

    October 21, 2009

    The tenacity of the Taliban insurgency is rooted in opposition to a foreign occupation that is particularly distasteful to the Pashtuns.

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