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Article: A new Afghanistan; Something to behold.(OPED)(POLITICAL BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2003
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Byline: Sol Schindler, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Few people are as uniquely qualified as Angelo Rasanayagam to write about Central Asia. A career official of the United Nations, he was chief of mission for the United Nations. in Iran and later became director of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees office in Peshawar, Pakistan. This last position put him into direct contact with the millions of refugees who had been forced to flee their homes and with the multiple relief organizations that had come to their aid.
In "Afghanistan: A Modern History," written since retirement ,Mr. Rasanayagam uses the knowledge thus gained to present to the reader a ...