Volume 49, Number 15 · October 10, 2002
Pakistan on the Edge
By Ahmed Rashid
Pakistan: The Eye of the Storm
by Owen Bennett Jones
Yale University Press, 352 pp., $29.95
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan
by Mary Anne Weaver
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 304 pp., $24.00 (to be published in late October)
September 11 was a defining moment throughout the world, but all the more so in South and Central Asia. While the US and its allies can claim success in their quick military victory against the Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in Afghanistan and in the creation of a new government in Kabul, the Western coalition has been much less successful in dealing with the problems that afflict the region today.
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