Ahmed Rashid WashPost Op-ed | Pakistan’s Worrisome Pullback

Ahmed Rashid, the acclaimed author and award-winning journalist is presenting today at CSIS, on the subject of his new book, Descent into Chaos: The Failure of Nation-building in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia ....check out a great review by Roger Gathman. Mr. Rashid wrote an op-ed in today's Washington Post on General Kiyani's decision to concentrate his military forces on "possible conflicts with traditional enemy India," while withdrawing troops from the "counterinsurgency war the Americans are demanding on Pakistan's mountainous western border."