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).

Articles

Rebuilding Afghanistan (Economics, Regions and Countries, Nation Building)

After twenty-one tension-filled days of raucous speeches, poetry readings, threats, bribery and walkouts, Afghanistan's loya jirga, held to endorse a new Constitution for Afghanistan after

Ahmed Rashid

Afghanistan Imperiled (Regions and Countries)

Extremist forces are making a comeback as American attention turns to Iraq.

Ahmed Rashid

Dispatches (Foreign Affairs)

The events of September 11, viewed from abroad.

Praful Bidwai, Maria Margaronis, Graham Usher, Mark Gevisser, Ahmed Rashid and Ana Uzelac

Pakistan, the Taliban and the US (Regions and Countries)

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

Ahmed Rashid