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THE TRIBAL AREAS OF PAKISTAN: A CONTEMPORARY PROFILE
PUBLISHER:
SANG-E-MEEL
AUTHOR:
TEEPU MAHABAT KHAN
Item #:
22559
Publishing Date 2008.
Rs 3,000.00
Item Description
The Federally Administred Tribal Areas of Pakistan are located in a contact zone of Great Game power rivalries, characterized by Toynbee as "the great eastern cross-road of history". These areas have weathered numerious storms of hisotry, whether invasions by the Aryan, Hun or Tartar hordes, waves of migrations to the fertile plains of India, quests for conquests by Alexander the Great, Mahmud of Ghazni, Tamerlane, Babur, or the later Afghans, or Great Power conflicts including the Great Game drama, Russian invasion of Afghanistan, or American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. Trapped in isolation from outside influences, they have yet again been unfortunately sucked into a partially regional, partially international conflict centering around the War on Terror. From an inner perspective, the evolution of this society is a result of historical processes characterized by clan and lineage relationships, settlement in a distant pocket that has been a shatter zone of regional conflicts, a strong sense of cohesion against external threats, combined with a worldview based on Pakhtunwali, allegiance to Islam, memory of confrontations with successive invaders, and a spirit of fierce competition for meager resources. The tribal reality is characterized by extreme poverty, deprivation imbeddedin a wafer-thin resource base, widespread illiteracy, structural deficits and an asymmetircla relationship with the modern world. In the context of recent developments, these areas seem to fail to break away from the historical pattern of confrontations...............
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