Ahmed Rashid, a well-known writer and journalist from Pakistan will visit Kyrgyzstan from March 29 until April 4, 2014

At the invitation of the Roza Otunbayeva Initiative Ahmed Rashid will deliver public lectures and hold meetings with experts on security and stability in Central Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan after the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan as part of the “Discover Asia” series.

Mr Rashid graduated from Malvern College, the State College of Lahore and Fitzwilliam College in Cambridge, UK. He has been a correspondent for Daily Telegraph and Far Eastern Economic Review in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asia for more than 20 years.

He currently writes for the Wall Street Journal, The Nation and various academic journals. He appears regularly on CNN and BBCWorld. In 2009 and 2010, Mr Rashid was listed among the top 100 foreign policy thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine.

His bestselling book “Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia” was published in 2000 and has since been translated into 22 languages. His other works have received numerous professional accolades.

Mr Rashid sits on the Committee to Protect Journalists (New York), consults for the “Human Rights Watch” and has for five years advised the International Committee of Red Cross/Red Crescent.

The Roza Otunbayeva Initiative International Public Foundation invites all public figures, experts and academics in the Kyrgyz Republic, as well journalists and bloggers, to the lecture.

For questions on registration, please contact us at: +996 312 660368;. +996 554 979714; office@roza.kg