: modern lives in the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands
/ edited by Shahzad Bashir, Robert D. Crews.
Cambridge, Massachusetts
: Harvard University Press
, 2012.
1111
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.