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The Pashtun question : the unresolved key to the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan / Abubakar Siddique.

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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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