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Christina Lamb

Christina Lamb has been reporting from Afghanistan and Pakistan for more than 20 years. She has won numerous awards for her reporting, including being named Britain's foreign correspondent of the year five times. She is now based in Washington as US editor of The Sunday Times.

The least bad option

Few believe that the latest influx of Western troops will bring a rapid end to three decades of conflict in benighted Afghanistan, writes Christina Lamb

(January-February 2010)

Between a rock and a hard place

The lack of a credible government in Afghanistan is more of an issue than insufficient allied troops on the ground, argues Christina Lamb

(Web specials) 09/11/2009

March-April 2010 issue highlights

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