Articles by Ahmed Rashid

Ahmed Rashid

The End Game

Even as an intensive US and NATO military offensive against the Taliban is underway in southern Afghanistan,...

Mar 12, 2010 Ahmed Rashid
The Enemy Within

The success of the Waziristan offensive, against the backdrop of a serious civil-military division in...

Oct 20, 2009 Ahmed Rashid
A Dangerous Void

The crisis in Pakistan leaves the US with few policy options. Large injections of cash are no alternative to...

Mar 05, 2009 Ahmed Rashid
'The Hazards Of Living In A Make-Believe Environment'

'Nobody can forget the cost paid by the country for unity behind Yahya Khan in his war on fellow Pakistanis,...

Jan 05, 2009 Ahmed Rashid
Pakistan On The Brink

Pakistan is at the center of a gathering fire storm engulfing south and central Asia in the most volatile...

Sep 23, 2008 Ahmed Rashid
Pakistan On Edge

While enormous public anger and mistrust swells in nuclear-armed Pakistan, Musharraf, long supported by the...

Jan 01, 2008 Ahmed Rashid
Emergency Not Just For Pakistan

Without greater international pressure to restore normalcy, Pakistan's growing instability is likely to...

Nov 13, 2007 Ahmed Rashid
Just Justice

Yes, that's Pakistan's only anniversary wish. There cannot be a sustainable fight against extremists who...

Aug 17, 2007 Ahmed Rashid
A Taliban Comeback?

As unprecedented Taliban violence sweeps across southern Afghanistan, endangering US-Pak alliance, triggering...

May 29, 2006 Ahmed Rashid
Takes Two To Tango

Afghanistan's political system will not succeed without steady and substantial assistance from the...

Oct 06, 2005 Ahmed Rashid
Great Game Reloaded

As Russia and China attempt to reclaim the dominant role in Central Asia that they ceded to the US in the...

Jul 27, 2005 Ahmed Rashid
The Poll Ploy

So George W. Bush wants elections in Afghansitan in September? Or does he actually just want to use the image...

Jun 02, 2004 Ahmed Rashid
Collateral Damage

Despite President Bush's clarion call for democratizing the Islamic world, military rulers can have a free...

Nov 21, 2003 Ahmed Rashid
Who's Winning The War On Terror?

Two years after Sept. 11, the Taliban is thriving along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. Like Osama bin...

Sep 08, 2003 Ahmed Rashid
Taliban In Pakistan

Left unchecked, the rise of the MMA - the latter-day Taliban - in a nuclear-armed Pakistan, which has been...

Jun 10, 2003 Ahmed Rashid
Ground Zeroes

The war against terror has only strengthened the despots in the region, fanning more disaffection

Sep 16, 2002 Ahmed Rashid