Event: National Security Seminar Series – Mar. 22

March 22, 6:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. — Pakistani political/military analyst and author Ahmed Rashid will give his perspective on the current situation in Afghanistan and in Pakistan where he resides.  Rashid is the author of the best-selling books Taliban, Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia and Descent into Chaos: U.S. Policy and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. He is a frequent commentator in the international media and his views are sought by thought leaders around the globe. Rashid was born in Rawalpindi, Pakistan in 1948, and was educated at Malvern College in England, Government College University, Lahore and at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University.