Well-known Pakistani writer and journalist Ahmed Rashid will lecture on security and stability in Central Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan

At the invitation of the Roza Otunbayeva Initiative International Foundation, respected writer and Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid will visit Kyrgyzstan between March 29 and April 4, 2014, to participate in a series of lectures and meetings on security and stability in Central Asia, Pakistan and Afghanistan in light of the withdrawal of coalition forces from Afghanistan as part of the “Discover Asia” program. The lecture will be held at 4 p.m. on March 31st at the J. Balasagyn Kyrgyz National University (in the large auditorium on the 2nd floor of the main building).

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.

 

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