The troubled Afghan-Pakistan border / author Jayshree Bajoria.
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TextPublication details: [New York] : Council on Foreign Relations, 2009.Description: 3 p. ; 30 cmDDC classification: - pamphlet DS 371.4 .B35 2009 /+ /HTML files /(1.2 MB)
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an Afghanistan-Pakistan approach to this insurgency.
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“Updated March 20, 2009.”
Summary: Afghanistan shares borders with six countries, but the approximate 1500-mile-long Durand Line along Pakistan remains the most dangerous. Kabul has never recognized the line as an international border, instead claiming the Pashtun territories in Pakistan that comprise the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and parts of North West Frontier Province along the border. Incidents of violence have increased on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border since the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan. In the last several years, U.S. officials and national intelligence reports have repeatedly attributed the growing strength of al-Qaeda and resurgence of the Taliban to safe havens in this border region. By early 2009, there was growing consensus in Washington that to win the war in Afghanistan, it had to address the chaos in Pakistan's tribal areas. In March 2009, Gen. David McKiernan, the top commander in Afghanistan, told the Newshour the only way to break the stalemate is to take