Pakistan on the Brink

Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistani journalist based in Lahore, is the author of Descent Into Chaos and the #1 New York Times bestseller Taliban. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the New York Times, and appears regularly on NPR, CNN, and the BBC World Service.

"[Rashid] literally wrote the book on the Taliban and now has added a superb work on the future of Pakistan."
The Washington Post

"Insightful . . . Readers will welcome this insider s lucid, expert account of a disaster in the making." Kirkus Reviews

"Pakistan on the Brink is a page turner. Through Ahmed Rashid's eloquent, incisive, objective, and fact-based descriptions of events and blunders repeatedly committed by the Afghan, Pakistani, and American establishments, the reader gets a great understanding of the genesis of the quagmire for which President Obama has coined the phrase AfPak." Louisville Courier-Journal

Praise for Descent into Chaos

"Powerful." Wolf Blitzer



"A clear-headed, sobering look at a country whose ties with the U.S. are becoming ever more frayed." Publishers Weekly

Rashid, a Pakistani journalist, is that most valuable of political analysts: both insider and outsider to the problems he studies. His book should be read by anyone pondering how America might stop widening Osama bin Laden s pool of bomb-clad volunteers. Chicago Tribune



Rashid s book should be required reading for both presidential candidates, and anyone who wants to understand the jihadi problem. The Philadelphia Inquirer

"Ahmed Rashid's latest work provides essential insights for anyone who hopes to understand what's going on in Central Asia and the alternative futures that stretch out before it."
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"A clear-headed, sobering look at a country whose ties with the U.S. are becoming ever more frayed." Publishers Weekly (starred review)



Excellent Nobody tells the story of Musharaff s duplicity better than Rashid. Time



Ahmed Rashid has over the decades turned out to be something of a prophet in the region [and] his fourth book [is] a caustic compendium of the mistakes by the Bush administration and, by extension, its regional allies, in tackling Islamic militancy. International Herald Tribune