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Husain Haqqani is a visiting scholar in the South Asia Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an associate professor of International Relations at Boston University

Incluye los nombres: Husain Haqqani, Ḥusain Ḥaqqānī

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Clear insight into the military-religion cocktail pakistan is high on. A good read to understand the self defeating actions of pak.
 
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Vipinpesce | 4 reseñas más. | May 5, 2019 |
A very interesting analysis by this seasoned diplomat. One common theme has been that even the hardcore elite of the country have nothing positive to say about this country. Born with a split personality, even it's protagonists could not give any form or shape for the country's ideology either secular or religious.

It's unenviable rulers have had to choose from three retirement options, execution, assasination or permanent exile. Due to it's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tendencies the country has bred several power centers, the Army, the ISI, myriad short lived civilian administrations and a plethora of ever growing religious, fanatical and violent offspring like the Taliban, the LeT who have long since disowned and distanced themselves from their creators and masters. Each of them tigers by the tail, pulling in different directions.

In fact this place is a case study for how to not govern a country. All the mistakes that can be made in good governance have been made and new examples come to the fore with each passing day. The Army has become a client of the US which in turn is guinea pigging with exerting pressure through remote control using the minions in the Army as puppets.
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danoomistmatiste | 4 reseñas más. | Jan 24, 2016 |
A very interesting analysis by this seasoned diplomat. One common theme has been that even the hardcore elite of the country have nothing positive to say about this country. Born with a split personality, even it's protagonists could not give any form or shape for the country's ideology either secular or religious.

It's unenviable rulers have had to choose from three retirement options, execution, assasination or permanent exile. Due to it's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde tendencies the country has bred several power centers, the Army, the ISI, myriad short lived civilian administrations and a plethora of ever growing religious, fanatical and violent offspring like the Taliban, the LeT who have long since disowned and distanced themselves from their creators and masters. Each of them tigers by the tail, pulling in different directions.

In fact this place is a case study for how to not govern a country. All the mistakes that can be made in good governance have been made and new examples come to the fore with each passing day. The Army has become a client of the US which in turn is guinea pigging with exerting pressure through remote control using the minions in the Army as puppets.
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kkhambadkone | 4 reseñas más. | Jan 17, 2016 |
This book by a former member of Pakistan’s government tells the same story decade after decade, ramping up the reader’s amazed anger each time. The title summarizes the thesis: Pakistan and the US have both been victims of their own illusions about the other (though Pakistan seems to have been much closer to the truth, given how much money and arms we’ve sent to the government). Pakistan has believed that it was so important to the US in the fight against communism, and then the fight against terrorism that was necessitated by the people we backed in the fight against communism, that it could just present the US with a wish list of stuff (often stuff that would be useful to fight India, but not useful to fight the people the US wanted Pakistan to fight) and the US would have no choice but to give in. The US, by contrast, has believed that Pakistan would be pro-US if we pumped enough money and equipment into the government, while instead the government has deliberately fostered public anti-Americanism, encouraged the production of regional threats or at least the appearance thereof, and supported radical Islamists, with the most recent notable example being Osama bin Laden. If you don’t end the book thinking that the US should stop providing any aid to Pakistan at all, I’d like to hear why not.… (más)
 
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