Steve Coll has been a foreign correspondent and editor at The Washington Post since 1985. In 1987, he covered the world of corporate takeovers on Wall Street, the stock market crash, the Michael Milken investigations and the SEC as the Post's financial correspondent in New York. In 1989, he moved to New Delhi to become the post's South Asia correspondent. For three years he covered India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal. He is the author of five books and won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism about the SEC in 1990.

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Can America make allies of Pakistan’s people rather than its military? In the eighteenth - and last - of our Letters to Americans series, Pakistani human rights campaigner Asma Jahangir writes to Steve Coll, Pulitzer-prizewinning author of ‘Ghost Wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden’.