born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 1948, has been working in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia. He writes for »Financial Times«, »New York Review of Books«, and others, and published »Taliban« (2000), among others. He works as a consultant to the Red Cross and Human Rights Watch, has founded the first media-focused NGO in Kabul after 9/11 and is on the Board of Trustees for the International Crisis Group. »Foreign Policy« voted him one of the 100 most important global thinkers in 2010.
Ahmed Rashid
