Mr. Rashid has been the Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia correspondent for the past twenty years for London’s Daily Telegraph and The Far Eastern Economic Review, until it recently ceased publication. Rashid also writes for the Lahore, Pakistan newspaper, The Nati. He is also the author of Taliban which introduced American readers to the brutal regime that hijacked Afghanistan and harbored the terrorist group responsible for the 9/11 attack, Jihad, and The Resurgence of Central Asia. He appears regularly on international TV and radio networks including CNN and BBC World.