Across the Durand Line
Owen Bennett-Jones: The Durand Line, 25 September 2014
The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan
by Abubakar Siddique.
Hurst, 271 pp., £30, May 2014,978 1 84904 292 5 Show More
by Abubakar Siddique.
Hurst, 271 pp., £30, May 2014,
The Taliban Revival: Violence and Extremism on the Pakistan-Afghanistan Frontier
by Hassan Abbas.
Yale, 280 pp., £18.99, May 2014,978 0 300 17884 5 Show More
by Hassan Abbas.
Yale, 280 pp., £18.99, May 2014,
“... to enable them to slip to the relative safety of Afghanistan. In
The Pashtun Question, Abubakar Siddique, a correspondent for Radio Free Europe, argues that if the Pashtuns had been able to govern themselves from 1947 they might have drawn on moderate indigenous traditions represented by figures such as Pir Roshan, a 16th-century cleric whose ... ”
