Ahmed Rashid

Al-Qa’eda’s new war

Sectarian bloodshed, in Afghanistan and Egypt, is a tool to thwart democracy and diplomacy

Lahore, Pakistan


From a distance, the devastating attacks on Shia Muslims in three Afghan cities this week looked like the type of sectarian religious attacks which we got used to in Iraq. The faultline between Sunni and Shia is one of the greatest and most violent in the world, and now and again it divides countries.

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