Ahmed Rashid

Ahmed Rashid is an award-winning journalist who has written for papers and journals across the world, including most recently The Daily Telegraph, The New York Review of Books and the International Herald Tribune. He is author of the best-selling Taliban: Islam, Oil and the new Great Game in Central Asia and Jihad, The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia.

Tackling the Taliban

In the west, the initial reaction to [Pakistani foreign minister Khurshid Mahmud] Kasuri's suggestion of negotiating with the Taliban was one of shock and rejection. Recently, however, the

By Ahmed Rashid

/ 20 Dec 2006