The Pashtuns A Contested History
- Publisher : HarperCollins
- Publishing year : January 2022
- Binding : Hardback
- ISBN : 9789394407633
- Imprint : Harper collins
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They inhabit a continuous ...
The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They inhabit a continuous stretch of land from the Hindu Kush to the Indus, across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan used the Pashtun-dominated areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as a launching pad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and later during the US-led War on Terror.
In the process FATA was kept in a constitutional and informational black hole. The discontent finally burst in 2018 when the extra-judicial killing of a Pashtun youth led to widespread protests.
This book by veteran analyst Tilak Devasher fulfils a gap in the geopolitical understanding of South Asia, given the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the shifting power equations in the region.
