Pakistan (Paperback: Reprint: 304 pages)
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| Author: | Mary Anne Weaver |
| Format: | Paperback: Reprint: 304 pages. |
| Publisher: | Farrar Straus & Giroux (09/01/2003) |
| ISBN: | 0374528861 |
| ISBN13: | 9780374528867 |
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Pro Reviews: Pakistan
[B]y telling stories and describing scenes, [Weaver] gives a sense of Pakistani life that no amount of dry analysis could convey. She is literally a fireside storyteller, quite capable of entertaining a gathering of Pashtun and Baluchi nomadic tribesmen.
Clear-eyed reporting and graceful prose in a highly readable--and sobering--work....
Publisher Notes: Pakistan
- No nation is more critical to United States foreign policy than Pakistan. Wedged between India and Afghanistan, it is the second-largest country in the Islamic world, and is situated in one of the world's most volatile regions. It has also assumed a commanding role in militant Islam--a frightening portent being its embrace of Afghanistan's bizarre fundamentalist student militia, the Taliban. With a dozen or so private Islamist armies and some thirty to fifty nuclear weapons, it is considered one of the most frightening places on earth. Its disintegration would pose an unthinkable threat to the United States and the West, but the man who will determine Pakistan's future course is the little-known and enigmatic General Pervez Musharraf.
Mary Anne Weaver presents her personal journey through a country in turmoil, reconstructing, largely in the voices of the key participants themselves--Generals Musharraf and Zia, and Benazir Bhutto--the legacies now haunting Pakistan in the aftermath of the U.S.-sponsored jihad of the 1980s in Afghanistan. Fusing geopolitical choices with a vivid portrait of a land--of its people, its mystery, and its clans--"Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan "provides an essential background for those seeking to understand the problems the international community now faces, and poses some deeply disturbing questions about the future of conflict in South Asia.
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