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Most accounts claim that the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan iseither rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among Pashtuncommunities on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
In The Pashtuns, Abubakar Siddique, a stout-hearted Pashtun himself, setsout to interrogate this claim. He tells a very different story: that the failure, andunwillingness, of both Afghanistan and Pakistan to absorb the Pashtuns into theirstate structures and to incorporate them into the economic and political fabric iscentral to South Asia`s problems, and a critical failure of nation- and state-buildingin both countries.
In a voice that is both engaging and erudite, he makes clear that religious extremismis the product of these critical failures and that responsibility for this lies to a large degree with the elites of both countries. Partly an eye-witness account and partly meticulously researched scholarship, The Pashtuns describes a people whose destiny will, no doubt, shape the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan, and also the rest of the world.
ISBN - 9788184006070
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Pages : 316
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