The Pashtun Question

Author : Abubakar Siddique
Publisher : Hurst & Company Limited
ISBN 13 : 1849042926
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pashtun Question written by Abubakar Siddique and published by Hurst & Company Limited. This book was released on 2014 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among their communities on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Abubakar Siddique sets out to demonstrate that the failure, or even unwillingness, of both Afghanistan and Pakistan to absorb the Pashtuns into their state structures and to incorporate them into the economic and political fabric is central to these dynamics, and a critical failure of nation- and state-building in both states. In his book he argues that religious extremism is the product of these critical failures and that responsibility for the situation lies to some degree with the elites of both countries. Partly an eye-witness account and partly meticulously researched scholarship, The Pashtun Question describes a people whose destiny will shape the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Author : Abubakar Siddique
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788184006070
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pashtuns written by Abubakar Siddique and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Farhat Taj
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788192998718
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Real Pashtun Question written by Farhat Taj and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Laurent Gayer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199354448
Total Pages : 381 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Karachi written by Laurent Gayer and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With an official population approaching fifteen million, Karachi is one of the largest cities in the world. It is also the most violent. Since the mid-1980s, it has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta-"protection" money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicized. Karachi, often referred to as a "Pakistan in miniature," has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially. Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi is the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. Gayer's book is an attempt to elucidate this conundrum. Against journalistic accounts describing Karachi as chaotic and ungovernable, he argues that there is indeed order of a kind in the city's permanent civil war. Far from being entropic, Karachi's polity is predicated upon organisational, interpretative and pragmatic routines that have made violence "manageable" for its populations. Whether such "ordered disorder" is viable in the long term remains to be seen, but for now Karachi works despite-and sometimes through-violence.

Author : Timothy Nunan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107112079
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanitarian Invasion written by Timothy Nunan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.

Author : Leo Karrer
Publisher : Graduate Institute Publications
ISBN 13 : 2940503117
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pashtun Traditions versus Western Perceptions written by Leo Karrer and published by Graduate Institute Publications. This book was released on 2012-12-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural interactions take place every day in contemporary Afghanistan between locals and the thousands of foreigners working in the country as diplomats, officials from international organisations and humanitarian aid workers. As their work requires them to interact with Afghans in manifold ways, all foreigners are, at least indirectly, required to negotiate. Karrer’s ePaper sheds light on the cross-cultural issues likely to contribute to the difficulties encountered by the international community in negotiating with Afghans, as well as for Afghans negotiating with foreigners. Through an analysis of academic literature, Karrer broadly outlines selected elements of Pashtun, in contrast to Western, negotiation culture, discusses the extent to which this negotiation culture may be attributed to Pashtun tradition, and attempts to highlight the complexity of Afghan negotiation behaviour against the binary indexing predominant in the preconceived cluster of Western cross-cultural negotiation and communication theories. Karrer’s research yields some significant insights into the impacts of cross-cultural issues on negotiation. Largely, he finds that current cross-cultural theories fail to provide a solid basis upon which to interpret the reality that exists on the ground in Afghanistan. This Paper draws on a final research work submitted to fulfil the requirements of the Executive Master in International Negotiation and Policy-Making (INP). The views and opinions expressed in this ePaper are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position position of Switzerland's Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA).

Author : Qamar Jafri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781943271399
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM) in Pakistan written by Qamar Jafri and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What factors drive people to choose nonviolent civil resistance to achieve human rights, peace, and justice? This Special Report offers ground-breaking knowledge about the link of colonialism, the Cold War, and the War on Terror with Talibanization, oppression, and human rights violations in the northwestern tribal areas of Pakistan. This knowledge is drawn from three years of in-depth field work studying the nonviolent resistance of the Pashtun Protection Movement in Pakistan. The report provides key takeaways to civil resistance scholars, policymakers, civil society, and activists who are confronting colonial phenomena and its remnants in the form of minority suppression, violence, exclusion, and injustice.

Author : Thomas Barfield
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691154414
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Afghanistan written by Thomas Barfield and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the political history of Afghanistan from the sixteenth century to the present, looking at what has united the people as well as the regional, cultural, and political differences that divide them.

Author : Elisabeth Leake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107126029
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Defiant Border written by Elisabeth Leake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls throughout the twentieth century.

Author : Hassan Abbas
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300183690
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taliban Revival written by Hassan Abbas and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In autumn 2001, U.S. and NATO troops were deployed to Afghanistan to unseat the Taliban rulers, repressive Islamic fundamentalists who had lent active support to Osama bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda jihadists. The NATO forces defeated and dismantled the Taliban government, scattering its remnants across the country. But despite a more than decade-long attempt to eradicate them, the Taliban endured—regrouping and reestablishing themselves as a significant insurgent movement. Gradually they have regained control of large portions of Afghanistan even as U.S. troops are preparing to depart from the region. In his authoritative and highly readable account, author Hassan Abbas examines how the Taliban not only survived but adapted to their situation in order to regain power and political advantage. Abbas traces the roots of religious extremism in the area and analyzes the Taliban’s support base within Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas. In addition, he explores the roles that Western policies and military decision making—not to mention corruption and incompetence in Kabul—have played in enabling the Taliban’s return to power.