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	Podcast:		Saturday Morning
	Episode:		Ahmed Rashid: what's next for the Taliban?
	Category:		Society & Culture
	Duration:		00:26:33
	Publish Date:		2021-09-10 22:35:00
	Description:		Ahmed Rashid's bestselling 2000 book Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia was used extensively by American analysts in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. The Lahore-based journalist and writer has been covering the wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Tajikistan since 1979 and has been an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration in relation to the Iraq war and the neglect he believes this led to in terms of the Taliban.
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