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050 4 _aDS354.58.S58 2014
082 0 _a327.54910581
100 1 _aSiddique, Abubakar.
245 1 4 _aThe Pashtun Question :
_bThe Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aOxford :
_bC. Hurst and Company (Publishers) Limited,
_c2014.
264 4 _c©2014.
300 _a1 online resource (316 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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505 0 _aCover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Maps -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THEATRE OF CONQUEST -- 1. Twenty-first Century Pashtuns: Continuity Amid Catastrophe -- Who are the Pashtuns? -- The Great Tribal Maze -- An Evolving Social Tapestry -- A Shattered Homeland -- From Kandahar to Swat -- 2. From Peaceful Borderlands to Incubators of Extremism -- The Enlightened Teacher -- The Rigid Mullah -- The Warrior Poet -- Afghan Empire -- Frontier Jihads -- The Great Game -- The Cold War and Pashtunistan -- The Globalisation of Jihad -- Arab Revolutionaries -- 3. The Taliban in Power -- Student Militias Ascendant -- Ruling by Decree -- Pashtun Nationalists? -- Pakistani Proxies? -- Bridge to Extremism -- PART TWO: PAKISTAN -- 4. War in Waziristan -- Rise of the Pakistani Taliban -- Ideology and Paths of Action -- The Haqqanis -- A New Abode for Al-Qaeda -- Islamabad's Stepchildren -- 5. Vanishing Tribes -- Every Valley Burns -- Hatred Under White Mountain -- Collective Punishment -- Too Little, Too Late -- 6. Terror in Pakhtunkhwa -- Revolutionary Politics -- From Paradise to Hell -- The Military's Pashtun Wars -- 7. Simmering Balochistan: a Taliban Haven -- Taliban Redux -- Divided Deobandis -- Balochistan: Crossroads of Conflict -- PART THREE: AFGHANISTAN -- 8. Old and New Islamists in Loy Nangarhar -- Archetype Mullah -- Salafism in Kunar -- 9. Tribes, Communists and Generational Jihadists in Loya Paktia -- Marx Among the Tribes -- Jihad in Blood -- Changing Tribal Landscape -- 10. The New Taliban in Loy Kandahar -- A Dying Nation -- The Book of Rules -- A Shadowy Organisation -- Taliban Utopia -- Making Peace with the Taliban -- The Nationalist Card -- PART FOUR: CONCLUSION -- 11. Crafting a Peaceful Pashtun Future -- Uncle Sam in Pashtunistan -- A Democratic Pakistan -- The Future of Afghanistan.
505 8 _aA Permanent Peace -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
520 _aAuthor 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aPushtuns--Pakistan.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aSiddique, Abubakar
_tThe Pashtun Question
_dOxford : C. Hurst and Company (Publishers) Limited,c2014
_z9781849042925
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=1775273
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