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The Unraveling

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How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue??s gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups?? In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan??s involvement with radical Islam, John R. Schmidt, the senior U.S political analyst in Pakistan in the years before 9/11, places the blame squarely on the rulers of the country, who thought they could use Islamic radicals to advance their foreign policy goals without having to pay a steep price.? This strategy worked well at first--in Afghanistan during the anti-Soviet jihad, in Kashmir in support of a local uprising against Indian rule, and again in Afghanistan in backing the Taliban in the Afghan civil war.? But the government??s plans would begin to unravel in the wake of 9/11, when the rulers?? support for the U.S. war on terror caused many of their jihadist allies to

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954.91053

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: ., 03-Jul-05

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288p.

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954.91053

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1st Edition

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International Relation

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Schmidt John R

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