Ahmed Rashid (b. 1948) is a world renowned 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, London. He also writes for the Wall Street Journal, The Nation (Pakistan), Lahore and academic journals. He appears regularly on international TV and radio such as CNN and BBC World. 1948 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER, 遠東經濟評論) is unusual among English language Asian news magazines in having been founded and developed entirely in Asia. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The Wall Street Journal is an influential international daily newspaper published in New York City, New York with an average daily circulation of 1,800,607 (2002). ... Lahore (لاةور) is a major city in Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab. ...

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 and has sold more than 1 million copies since 9/11/2001. The book was also extensively used by American analysts in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. In 2003, Rashid wrote Jihad - the Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia, a book about Central Asia history and it´s islamic movements. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Ahmed Rashid lives in Lahore, Pakistan with his wife and two children. (Profile: Taimur Khan) Lahore (لاةور) is a major city in Pakistan and is the capital of the province of Punjab. ...

External Links

• Ahmed Rashid's Official website
• "Afghanistan - a rocky year ahead," BBC, January 29, 2004.
• "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.

Further Reading

• Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, 2000. ISBN 0300089023