Pakistan - Softcover

Owen Bennett Jones

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143031228 ISBN 13: 9780143031222

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2005

Synopsis

Access to nuclear weapons, political instability, and deep-seated economic and social problems have made pakistan the focus of global attention its military ruler, general pervez musharraf, re-elected in 2002 to a second term as president, is the first pakistani leader in thirty years to dare to confront the countrys islamic extremists but will he succeed in controlling the forces that helped create the taliban in afghanistan and fuelled the bitter conflict in kashmir will his army and intelligence agencies be able to tame the radical elements that they created and sustained in this powerful history of pakistan from 1947 to the present, bennett jones describes the many fault lines in pakistani society he assesses the role of the nationalists in the provinces, the feudal landlords in the countryside, and the bureaucratic elite in islamabad and analyses the complex relationships between religion, regional politics and the armed forces as a bbc correspondent in pakistan between 1998 and 2001, bennett jones witnessed first hand many of the events that brought general musharraf to power this book contains the first detailed accounts of the 1999 coup, the kargil conflict and how pakistan came to test its nuclear bomb it will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand a country that was crucial to the expulsion of soviet forces from afghanistan in the 1980s and which, after the 11 september 2001 attack, became a key coalition partner in americas war against terrorism

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0143031228
• ISBN 13: 9780143031222
• Binding: Paperback