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The Pashtuns: A Contested History

Tilak Devasher

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The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They inhabit a continuous stretch of land from the Hindu Kush to the Indus, across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan used the Pashtun-dominated areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as a launching pad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and later during the US-led War on Terror.

In the process FATA was kept in a constitutional and informational black hole. The discontent finally burst in 2018 when the extra-judicial killing of a Pashtun youth led to widespread protests.

This book by veteran analyst Tilak Devasher fulfils a gap in the geopolitical understanding of South Asia, given the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the shifting power equations in the region.

Format:: Kindle Edition

Pages:: 711 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: HarperCollins

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 9394407642

ISBN13:: 9789394407640

kindle Asin:: B0BB4LZN8Q

The Pashtuns: A Contested History

Tilak Devasher

4.06/5 (77 ratings)

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The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They inhabit a continuous stretch of land from the Hindu Kush to the Indus, across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan used the Pashtun-dominated areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as a launching pad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and later during the US-led War on Terror.

In the process FATA was kept in a constitutional and informational black hole. The discontent finally burst in 2018 when the extra-judicial killing of a Pashtun youth led to widespread protests.

This book by veteran analyst Tilak Devasher fulfils a gap in the geopolitical understanding of South Asia, given the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the shifting power equations in the region.

Format:: Kindle Edition

Pages:: 711 pages

Publication:

Publisher:: HarperCollins

Edition:

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 9394407642

ISBN13:: 9789394407640

kindle Asin:: B0BB4LZN8Q

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