The Pashtuns A Contested History Urdu General The outcome of a five-year-long

The outcome of a five-year-long pursuit

and the role of China and Saudi Arabia in supporting its nuclear infrastructure

It especially focuses on the political history of Pakistan

these essays are as illuminating today as they were on first publication

Publish Year : 2002

The Pashtuns A Contested History Urdu General The outcome of a five-year-longAuthor Name : Tilak Devasher 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