02263nam a22002777a 450000500170000000800410001702000150005804000070007304100080008008200230008810000280011124500530013926000280019230000250022036500240024552014470026965000190171665000200173565000180175565000190177365000230179270000300181594200120184599900190185795201090187620211113122428.0211113b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a067004959X  cAL  aeng  223a954.9105bWEAP  aMary Anne Weaver910341  aPakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan  aNew DelhibVikingc2002  a284 p.bHBc24x16 cm  b395.00c₹d395.00  aNo nation is more critical to U.S. foreign policy than nuclear-armed Pakistan. Wedged between India and Afghanistan, it is the second largest country in the Islamic world. But with militant Islamists now expanding their control over some of the country's most strategically sensitive areas, there is a growing fear that Washington's most stolid ally in South Asia—at least ostensibly—is unraveling, and perhaps is even on the verge of collapse. With a dozen or so private Islamist armies, a hundred or so nuclear weapons, and a dysfunctional government, Pakistan is considered one of the most dangerous places on earth. Its disintegration would pose an unthinkable threat to the United States and the West, including the prospect of its nuclear arsenal being captured by religious extremists.

In Pakistan, Mary Anne Weaver presents her personal journey through a country in turmoil, reconstructing, largely in the voices of the key participants themselves—General Pervez Musharraf, General Muhammed Zia, and the assassinated former prime minister Benazir Bhutto—the legacies now haunting Pakistan in the aftermath of the U.S.-sponsored jihad in the 1980s in Afghanistan. Combining deep geopolitical intelligence with a vivid portrait of a land—of its people, its mystery, and its clans—Pakistan provides an essential background for anyone who wants to understand the single most urgent problem facing the international community.  aHistory910342  aPakistan910343  aTravel910344  aKashmir910345  aBalochistan910346  aWEAVER (Mary Anne)910347  2ddccGF  c220562d220562  00102ddc40708HISaALbALd2013-03-24l0o954.9105 WEAPpGF03268r2021-11-13 00:00:00w2021-11-13yGF