Pakistan in the danger zone : a tenuous U.S. - Pakistan relationship / Shuja Nawaz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Washington, DC : Atlantic Council, 2010.Description: 20 p. ; 30 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • Pamphlet E 183.8 .P18 .N36 /2010/ + /PDF/(816KB)
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“June 2010”.

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents: Foreword—I. Executive summary (p. 3)—II. The wars within Pakistan (p. 5)—III. 2009 : new challenges (p. 7)—IV. Moves towards democracy (p. 8)—V. Fragile economy (p. 9)—VI. The view from Washington (p. 11)—VII. Historical mistrust (p. 14)—VIII. Shared aims (p. 115)—IX. What needed to be done (p. 17)—X. Rapid action needed (p. 18)—XI. Consequences of inaction (p. 20).

Summary: “the Afghanistan war may be lost on the battlefields of Pakistan, where a vicious conflict is now being fought by Pakistan against a homegrown insurgency spawned by the war across its western frontier. A year after we at the Atlantic Council raised a warning flag about the effects of failure in Afghanistan and the need to meet Pakistan’s urgent needs in its existential war against militancy and terrorism, the situation in Pakistan remains on edge. Domestic politics remain in a constant state of flux, with some progress toward a democratic polity overshadowed by periodic upheavals and conflicts between the ruling coalition and the emerging judiciary…”—(p. 3).