Pakistan at the Crossroads: Domestic Dynamics and External Pressures by Christophe Jaffrelot

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In Pakistan-at-the-Crossroads,-top-international-scholars-assess-Pakistan’s-politics-and-economics-and-the-challenges-faced-by-its-civil-and-military-leaders-domestically-and-diplomatically.-Contributors-examine-the-state’s-handling-of-internal-threats,-tensions-between-civilians-and-the-military,-strategies-of-political-parties,-police-and-law-enforcement-reform,-trends-in-judicial-activism,-the-rise-of-border-conflicts,-economic-challenges,-financial-entanglements-with-foreign-powers,-and-diplomatic-relations-with-India,-China,-Iran,-Saudi-Arabia,-Afghanistan,-and-the-United-States.In-addition-to-ethnic-strife-in-Baluchistan-and-Karachi,-terrorist-violence-in-Pakistan-in-response-to-the-American-led-military-intervention-in-Afghanistan-and-in-the-Federally-Administered-Tribal-Areas-by-means-of-drones,-as-well-as-to-Pakistani-army-operations-in-the-Pashtun-area,-has-reached-an-unprecedented-level.-There-is-a-growing-consensus-among-state-leaders-that-the-nation’s-main-security-threats-may-come-not-from-India-but-from-its-spiraling-internal-conflicts,-though-this-realization-may-not-sufficiently-dissuade-the-Pakistani-army-from-targeting-the-country’s-largest-neighbor.-This-volume-is-therefore-critical-to-grasping-the-sophisticated-interplay-of-internal-and-external-forces-complicating-the-country’s-recent-trajectory.