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A correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review, The Times of London, Daily Telegraph, and Pakistan’s The Nation, Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid has been covering the politics of Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan in particular, for more than twenty years. His #1 New York Times bestseller Taliban has been translated into more than twenty languages. In Jihad, he provides unique insight and analysis of an explosive region and the information to understand its contemporary crises.