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Author Weaver, Mary Anne.

Title Pakistan : in the shadow of jihad and Afghanistan / Mary Anne Weaver
Edition First edition
Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002

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Description [ix], 284 pages : map ; 24 cm
regular print
Contents Prelude -- 1. General on a tightrope -- 2. "This was Pakistan" -- 3. In the tribal lands: Balochistan -- 4. Hunting with the Sheiks -- 5. Daughter o f Pakistan -- 6. Déjà vu -- 7. Kashmir
Summary "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."
"In Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan, Mary Anne Weaver elucidates a country in turmoil through two decades of eyewitness reporting and unparalleled access to Pakistan's presidents, prime ministers, generals, and politicians. Here are rare and revealing portraits of General Musharraf who rose through the ranks to become Benazir Bhutto's Chief of Military Operations and then assumed control in a historic military coup; of General Zia, who launched Pakistan on its present militant Islamist course while at the same time transforming it into the hub of U.S. policy on the Indian subcontinent; and of Benazir Bhutto herself - charismatic, imperious, conflicted, commanding, and the first woman prime minister of an Islamic country."--BOOK JACKET
Analysis Pakistan
Political conditions
Afghanistan
History
Overseas item
Jihad (Holy War)
Pervez Musharraf
Notes Includes index
SUBJECT Pakistan -- Politics and government -- 1988- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001403
Pakistan -- Politics and government -- 1971-1988. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096889
Pakistan -- Politics and government -- 1988- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90001403
Pakistan -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116495
LC no. 2002026388
ISBN 0374228949 hardcover
0374528861 paperback