In the past seven years, has the U.S. gotten closer to finding Bin Laden, containing al-Qaida or stabilizing Afghanistan? Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani author and journalist, and Peter Bergen, author of The Osama Bin Laden I Know, discuss what progress...
When I was younger, my family would visit Pakistan during summer vacations. In the teeming port city of Karachi, I often went with my uncle to the local bazaar, where merchants and browsers haggled fiercely over prices underneath tan tents.
To...
Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid's 'Descent Into Chaos' continues to attract non-fiction readers in the city though Amitav Ghosh has slipped to number two in the fiction list with Stephanie Meyer's 'Breaking Dawn' taking the top position.
The top...
After nine years in power, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf was forced to resign last week under mounting threat of impeachment. This week Pakistan’s ruling coalition – the two main parties...
Descent Into Chaos The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia 484 pages. $27.95, Viking; £25, Allen Lane.
When Bill Clinton briefed President-elect George Bush at the White House in December...
If you have had trouble making sense of the ever-gloomier headlines from Afghanistan, where a single attack in mid-July killed nine Americans and monthly U.S. death tolls are now higher than in Iraq, because of the resurgence of the Taliban,...
Background
Ahmed Rashid (b. 1948 in Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling author. Rashid attended Malvern College, England, Government College Lahore, and Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He serves as the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Daily Telegraph. He also writes for the Wall Street Journal, The Nation, and academic journals. He appears regularly on international TV and radio networks such as CNN and BBC World.
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