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Under the drones : modern lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands /

In the West, media coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan is framed by military and political concerns, resulting in a simplistic picture of ageless barbarity, terrorist safe havens, and peoples in need of either punishment or salvation. Under the Drones looks beyond this limiting view to investigate...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bashir, Shahzad, 1968- (Editor ), Crews, Robert D., 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.