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001			ASIN1846144574
005			20190522122647.0
008			130509s2011 xxu eng d
020			_a1846144574 (paperback) _c$49.75
020			_a9781846144578 (paperback)
100	1		_aLieven, Anatol.
245	1	0	_aPakistan : _ba hard country / _cAnatol Lieven.
260			_a[S.l.] : _bPenguin Books, _c2011.
300			_a576 p. ; _c23 cm.
520			_aIn the past decade Pakistan has emerged as a country of immense importance. Large, heavily populated, strategically placed between Iran, Afghanistan and India, Pakistan has since its creation just over sixty years ago been pulled in several different, irreconcilable directions. In the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, Osama Bin Laden's presence in its unpoliceable border areas, its shelter of the Afghan Taleban, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan to London, Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to understand this remarkable and highly contradictory place. Far from seeing Pakistan as the failed state often portrayed in the media, Lieven's extraordinary new book instead treats it as a viable and coherent state that, within limits and by the standards of its own region rather than the West, does work. Lieven argues strongly against US actions that would risk destroying that state in the illusory search for victory in Afghanistan. This work is based on a profound and sophisticated analysis of Pakistan's history and its social, religious and political structures. Lieven has interviewed hundreds of Pakistanis at every level of society, from leading politicians and soldiers to village mullahs and rickshaw drivers. In particular, his examination of the roots of popular sympathy for the Taleban in Pakistan draws on the testimony of people whose views are rarely consulted by Western analysts.
856	4	0	_3Amazon.com _uhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1846144574/chopaconline-20
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