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The Pashtun question : the unresolved key to the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan / Abubakar Siddique.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Siddique, Abubakar, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pushtuns--Pakistan.
- Pushtuns.
- Pushtuns--Afghanistan.
- Afghanistan--Foreign relations--Pakistan.
- Afghanistan.
- Pakistan--Foreign relations--Afghanistan.
- Pakistan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London, [England] : Hurst & Company, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Author argues that the failure of Pakistan and Afghanistan to absorb Pashtuns into their sate structures and societies has been a critical failure of nation- and state-building.
- Contents:
- Twenty-first century Pashtuns: continuity amid catastrophe
- From peaceful borderlands to incubators of extremism
- The Taliban in power
- War in Waziristan
- Vanishing tribes
- Terror in Pakhtunkhwa
- Simmering Balochistan: a Taliban haven
- Old and new Islamists in Loy Nangarhar
- Tribes, communists and generational jihadists in Loya Paktia
- The new Taliban in Loy Kandahar
- Crafting a peacful future.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-84904-499-6
- 1-84904-498-8
- OCLC:
- 937719513
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