Bilal Sarwary

Bilal Sarwary is an Afghan journalist who has worked extensively with Western media. He has covered Afghanistan for the BBC since 2001, the year in which the US-led invasion toppled the Taliban. He is an independent scholar majoring in the central linkages between warfare, drugs and terrorism. He graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont in 2010. His thesis was entitled The Farcification of Taliban, and it involved a comparison of Columbia's FARC with the Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency.