...Ahmed Rashid correctly argues that the terrorist attack on Mumbai was a diversionary tactic, aimed at relieving the Pakistani military pressure on the Tehrik-i Taliban Pakistan in the tribal agencies and on the remnants of al-Qaeda. Neither India nor Pakistan...
...and the absence of anything to back it, at once made it convenient for sceptics on both sides of the border to raise questions. Ahmed Rashid, Lahore-based journalist and authority on al Qaida, told The Telegraph: I do not doubt that this attack has originated...
...suspects does that in and of itself, including making our soldiers more vulnerable in South Asia and around the globe. Ahmed Rashid, author of "Descent into Chaos" talks about this reality, once Bush-Cheney's policies of torture and rendition became a global...
...Asia Society and sits on its task-force on Afghanistan with Barnett Rubin, an expert on the country. In October Mr Rubin and Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistan-based author of several books on the region, produced a paper advocating a wider regional approach to the...
...for local problems. Yet sending more combat troops to the region won’t improve security, argue authors Barnett Rubin and Ahmed Rashid in an essay for Foreign Affairs. “U.S. diplomacy has been paralyzed by the rhetoric of ‘the war on terror’ -- a struggle against...
...mounting evidence of links to al Qaeda's global jihad and the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. "They are all one," said Ahmed Rashid, author of "Descent into Chaos", a book that dissects how the region has been plunged into turmoil by Pakistan's use of...
...a terrific Christmas book list. I've read many of them. One he left out that is a must read is "Descent into Chaos," by Ahmed Rashid. Tina Brown asks: How is it Obama can fill a Cabinet faster than NBC can replace Tim Russert? Oh, and Tina's replacement pick...
...Mumbai attacks. "International pressure is needed" to get India and Pakistan to talk constructively on this point, says Ahmed Rashid, an independent political analyst in Lahore. No senior Indian official has yet accused Lashkar-e-Taiba openly. Both the prime...
...but it is ultimately responsible for what has happened. The real political background to Mumbai is succinctly summed up by Ahmed Rashid in his excellent book ‘Descent into Chaos: How the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan...
..."As far as the state is concerned, the state institutions of the ISI and the army, I don't think they were involved," said Ahmed Rashid, author of "Descent into Chaos", which chronicles Pakistan's endless turmoil. There is a covert group of agents, Rashid...