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Ahmed Rashid (Urdu:; born 1948 in Rawalpindi) is a Pakistani journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia.
After graduating, Rashid spent ten years in the hills of Balochistan, attempting to organise an uprising against the Pakistani military dictatorships of Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan. He ended his guerrilla fighting days frustrated and defeated and turned his attention to writing about his homeland. He has been the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia Correspondent for The Daily Telegraph for more than 20 years and a correspondent for Far Eastern Economic Review. He also writes for The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, Daily Times (Pakistan) and academic journals. He appears regularly on international TV channels and radio networks such as CNN, BBC World and many Pakistani TV channels. State of play: In conversation with Ahmed Rashid (an interview) The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 29 March 2015, Retrieved 21 January 2019 Rashid is often sought after for advice by diplomats in Islamabad and Kabul, and by policy makers in NATO capitals and Washington."
He is a well known and vocal critic of the Bush administration in relation to the Iraq war and its alleged neglect of the Taliban issue. Rashid's 2000 book, , Wide-ranging Radio Netherlands' interview with Ahmed Rashid about Afghanistan was a New York Times bestseller for five weeks, translated into 22 languages, and has sold 1.5 million copies since the September 11, 2001 attacks, "an astonishing number for an academic press." The book was used extensively by American analysts in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Rashid charged that former president George W. Bush plagiarized his work in writing his memoirs.
His commentary also appears in The Washington Post's Post Global segment. "Rashid is a regular columnist for leading national and international publications and a frequent guest on NPR's (National Public Radio) Fresh Air." Great Conversations program on Public Broadcasting System (US) - 'Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink' Program Aired on 24 June 2012, Retrieved 21 January 2019
Ahmed Rashid is married with two children and lives in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
"An expert on the Taliban -- until 9/11 he knew them better than almost any outsider -- Mr. Rashid has over the decades turned out to be something of a prophet in the region, though mostly of the Cassandra type, issuing repeated warnings that are ignored by policy makers."
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Categories: Pakistani Male Journalists, Pakistani Non-fiction Writers, Foreign Policy Writers, Central Asian Studies Scholars, Alumni Of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, People Educated At Malvern College, 1948 Births, Living People, Government College University, Lahore Alumni, Journalists From Lahore, Pakistani Television Journalists, Scholars Of Terrorism, Carnegie Council For Ethics In International Affairs, Writers From Lahore
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