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Ahmed Rashid (b. 1948) is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling author. He was born in Rawalpindi in 1948 and was educated at Malvern College, England, Government College Lahore, and Cambridge University. 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.

Rashid's 2000 book, Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, was a New York Times bestseller for 5 weeks. It was translated into 22 languages. According to his homepage it has sold 1.5 million copies since the September 11, 2001 attacks. The book was used extensively by American analysts in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In 2003 Rashid's Jihad - the Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia was published.

Rashid lives in Lahore, Pakistan with his wife and two children.

References

1. Ahmed Rashid Rashid's homepage, press on biography (retrieved 5 November 2006)

Bibliography

• The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism?, St. Martin's Press (May 1994), ISBN 1-85649-131-5.
• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, Yale University Press (March 2000) ISBN 0-300-08340-8.
• Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, Yale University Press (January 25, 2002) ISBN 0-300-09345-4. (Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 2002)

External links

• Ahmed Rashid's Official website
• PostGlobal Panelist
• Resources by Ahmed Rashid at the Carnegie Council
• "Afghanistan - a rocky year ahead," BBC, January 29, 2004. (BBC)
• "Explosive Mix in Pakistan's gas province," BBC, 4 February, 2005.
• "Cold exposes Afghanistan's broken promises," BBC, 17 March, 2005.
• "Musharraf's Power Play," BBC, 22 December 2004.
• "India and Pakistan's road to detente," BBC, 11 November, 2004.
• "Pakistan's Growing Problems," BBC, 1 July, 2004.
• "Musharraf's Bin Laden headache," BBC, 17 March, 2004.
• "Three elections and the Muslim World," BBC, 27 September, 2004.
• "Where is Musharraf's Pakistan heading?" BBC, 29 April, 2004.
• "This Is not an Issue of Free Speech" Der Spiegel, 10 February, 2006. (Der Spiegel)

• 1948 births
• Living people
• Pakistani journalists
• Central Asian Studies