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Ahmed Rashid is a journalist and best-selling foreign policy author of several books about Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Central Asia. Wikipedia  

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Ahmed Rashid Quotes

“Afghanistan is not only the mirror of the Afghans: it is the mirror of the world. 'If you do not like the image in the mirror, do not break the mirror, break your face,' says an old Persian proverb.”

Ahmed Rashid book Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

Source: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

“Arab regimes need to come together far more than they have done if they are to convince their populations that the extremism carried out by IS in the name of Sunni Islam is destroying the traditional, tolerant Islam that most Arabs have always believed in.”

Ahmed Rashid

Source: Is IS on an inevitable path to destruction? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30409764 BBC News (11 December 2014)

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