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Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance to Modernity
Riaz Mohammad Khan
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Description for Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance to Modernity
Hardback. Ultimately, Khan argues, Pakistan reveals a deep confusion in its public discourse on issues of modernity and the challenges the country faces, an intellectual crisis that Pakistan must address to secure the country's survival, progress, and constructive role in the region. Num Pages: 400 pages, 2, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FCA; 1FKP; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 31. Weight in Grams: 764.
This timely study surveys the conflict in Afghanistan from Pakistan's point of view and analyzes the roots of Pakistan's ambiguous policy-supporting the United States on one hand and showing empathy for the Afghan Taliban on the other. The author, a former foreign secretary of Pakistan, considers a broad range of events and interweaves his own experiences and perspectives into the larger narrative of the Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship. Beginning with the 1989 departure of Soviet troops-and especially since the 2001 NATO invasion-Riaz Mohammad Khan examines the development of Afghanistan and surveys the interests of external powers both there and in Pakistan. He ... Read more
This timely study surveys the conflict in Afghanistan from Pakistan's point of view and analyzes the roots of Pakistan's ambiguous policy-supporting the United States on one hand and showing empathy for the Afghan Taliban on the other. The author, a former foreign secretary of Pakistan, considers a broad range of events and interweaves his own experiences and perspectives into the larger narrative of the Afghanistan-Pakistan relationship. Beginning with the 1989 departure of Soviet troops-and especially since the 2001 NATO invasion-Riaz Mohammad Khan examines the development of Afghanistan and surveys the interests of external powers both there and in Pakistan. He ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421403847
SKU
V9781421403847
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About Riaz Mohammad Khan
Riaz Mohammad Khan served as Pakistan's Foreign Secretary (2005-8) and the country's ambassador to China (2002-5), the European Union and Belgium (1995-98), and Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan (1992-95). He is author of Untying the Afghan Knot: Negotiating Soviet Withdrawal and was the Woodrow Wilson Center's Pakistan Scholar in 2009.
Reviews for Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance to Modernity
In the entire subcontinent, nothing like this work has been written or "even attempted", matching the breadth of its sweep and the depth of its analyses.
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