Under the drones

Under the drones modern lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands / [electronic resource] : edited by Shahzad Bashir, Robert D. Crews. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012, c2012. - 1 online resource (327 p.) : maps.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Political struggles over the Afghan-Pakistani borderlands / Amin Tarzi -- The transformation of the Afghan-Pakistan border / Gilles Dorronsoro -- Religious revivalism across the Durand Line / Sana Haroon -- Taliban, real and imagined / James Caron -- Quandaries of the Afghan nation / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi -- How tribal are the Taliban? / Thomas Ruttig -- Ethnic minorities in search of political consolidation / Lutz Rzehak -- Red mosque / Faisal Devji -- Madrasa statistics don't support the myth / Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, and Asim Ijaz Khwaja -- Will Sufi Islam save Pakistan? / Farzana Shaikh -- The politics of Pashtun and Punjabi truck decoration / Jamal J. Elias -- The Afghan mediascape / Nushin Arbabzadah -- Women and the drug trade in Afghanistan / Fariba Nawa.

9780674069787 (electronic bk.) 0674069781 (electronic bk.)


Borderlands--Afghanistan.
Borderlands--Pakistan.
Islam and politics--Afghanistan.
Islam and politics--Pakistan.
HISTORY / Military / Afghan War (2001-)


Afghanistan--Relations--Pakistan.
Pakistan--Relations--Afghanistan.
Afghanistan--Boundaries--Pakistan.
Pakistan--Boundaries--Afghanistan.
Afghanistan--Politics and government.
Pakistan--Politics and government.


Electronic books.

DS357.6.P18 / U53 2012eb

958.104/71