Pakistan A Hard Country

Name: Pakistan A Hard Country
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ISBN: 9781610390217

ISBN-10: 1610390210

ISBN-13: 9781610390217

Edition: 2011

Authors: Anatol Lieven

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In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven's book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 4/12/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 576
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 2.25" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


List of Acronyms



Land, People and History



Introduction: Understanding Pakistan



The Struggle for Muslim South Asia



Structures



Justice



Religion



The Military



Politics



The Provinces



Punjab



Sindh



Balochistan



The Pathans



The Taleban



The Pakistani Taleban



Defeating the Taleban?


Conclusions


Notes


Books Consulted


Glossary



Chronology of Muslim South Asia



Pakistani Statistics


Index