Ahmed Rashid is the author of Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia and Taliban. He lives in Lahore. (September 2011)
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What the Taliban Say They Want
September 29, 2011
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Pakistan: Al-Qaeda Now
June 9, 2011
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The Way Out of Afghanistan
January 13, 2011
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A Deal with the Taliban?
February 25, 2010
My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef, translated from the Pashto and edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn
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The Afghanistan Impasse
October 8, 2009
To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
by Nicholas Schmidle
Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and al Qaeda
by Gretchen Peters
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Pakistan on the Brink
June 11, 2009
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Jihadi Suicide Bombers: The New Wave
June 12, 2008
Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda, A Spy’s Story
by Omar Nasiri
Architect of Global Jihad: The Life of al-Qaida Strategist Abu Mus’ab al-Suri
by Brynjar Lia
Jihad in Islamic History: Doctrines and Practice
by Michael Bonner
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
edited by Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi
Koran, Kalashnikov, and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan
by Antonio Giustozzi
The Five Front War: The Better Way to Fight Global Jihad
by Daniel Byman
Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World
by Philip H. Gordon
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The Wrong Company
October 5, 2006
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Afghanistan: On the Brink
June 22, 2006
Afghanistan’s Uncertain Transition from Turmoil to Normalcy a report by Barnett R. Rubin
Kabul in Winter: Life without Peace in Afghanistan
by Ann Jones
Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations…One School at a Time
by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
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The Rise of bin Laden
May 27, 2004
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
by Steve Coll
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The Mess in Afghanistan
February 12, 2004
Afghanistan’s Bonn Agreement One Year Later: A Catalog of Missed Opportunities by Human Rights Watch
“We Want to Live as Humans”: Repression of Women and Girls in Western Afghanistan by Human Rights Watch
All Our Hopes Are Crushed: Violence and Repression in Western Afghanistan by Human Rights Watch
“Killing You Is a Very Easy Thing for Us”: Human Rights Abuses in Southeast Afghanistan by Human Rights Watch
Afghanistan: Are We Losing the Peace? by an Independent Task Force cosponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations and the Asia Society
The Situation in Afghanistan and Its Implications for International Peace and Security by Kofi Annan to the General Assembly of the United Nations
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Hope in a Sea of Dictatorship
December 14, 2011
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Afghanistan: A New Sectarian War?
December 12, 2011
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What the Taliban Want
August 29, 2011
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Pakistan and al-Qaeda’s Future
May 3, 2011
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An Army Without a Country
March 4, 2011
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Tajikistan: The Next Jihadi Stronghold?
November 29, 2010
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NATO's Dangerous Wager with Karzai
November 22, 2010
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Last Chance for Pakistan
August 16, 2010
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Petraeus’s Baby
July 14, 2010
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Terror in Pakistan's Punjab Heartland
June 3, 2010
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The Times Square Bomber: Homegrown Hatred?
May 14, 2010
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Afghanistan: The Missing Strategy
December 2, 2009
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How They Convinced Karzai
October 23, 2009