Farewell Kabul: How the West Ignored Pakistan and Lost Afghanistan 9780007256921, 9780008171278, 0007256922

From the award-winning co-author of 'I Am Malala', this book asks just how the might of NATO, with 48 countrie

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English Pages 416 pages Year 2015

Farewell Kabul: How the West Ignored Pakistan and Lost Afghanistan
9780007256921, 9780008171278, 0007256922

In October 2001, NATO forces invaded Afghanistan. Their initial aim, to topple the Taliban regime and replace it with a

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Osama and Obama, legacy and inheritance -- Pakistan in crisis -- Pakistan: Who betrayed whom? -- Afghanistan: the first

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What made the West 'western'? And, has Western civilisation found modernity but lost itself? This provocative

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Offering one of the first long-term on-the-ground ethnographies of Afghanistan since the arrival of allied forces in 200

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Guided by the concepts of Islam, machinery for social and political progress in West Pakistan, where nearly eighty perce

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When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming – a return to the land from

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An eminent historian looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its hi

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An eminent historian looks to the present and future of Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the longest war in its hi

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When Indian journalist Taran Khan arrived in Kabul in 2006, she imagined it as a homecoming – a return to the land from

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