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" Since 9/11, Pakistan has loomed large in the geopolitical imagination of the West. A key ally in the global war on terror, it is also the country in which Osama bin Laden was finally found and killed--and the one that has borne the brunt of much of the ongoing conflict's collateral damage. Despite its prominence on the front lines and on the front pages, Pakistan has been depicted by Western observers simplistically in terms of its corruption, its fundamentalist Islamic beliefs, and its propensity for violence. Dispatches from Pakistan, in contrast, reveals the complexities, the challenges, and the joys of daily life in the country, from the poetry of Gilgit to the graffiti of Gwadar, from an army barrack in Punjab to the urban politics of Karachi.This timely book brings together journalists, activists, academics, and artists to provide a rich, in-depth, and intriguing portrait of contemporary Pakistani society. Straddling a variety of boundaries--geographic, linguistic, and narrative--Dispatches from Pakistan is a vital attempt to speak for the multitude of Pakistanis who, in the face of seemingly unimaginable hardships, from drone strikes to crushing poverty, remain defiantly optimistic about their future. While engaging in conversations on issues that make the headlines in the West, the contributors also introduce less familiar dimensions of Pakistani life, highlighting the voices of urban poets, rural laborers, industrial workers, and religious-feminist activists--and recovering Pakistani society's inquilabi (revolutionary) undercurrents and its hopeful overtones.Contributors: Mahvish Ahmad; Nosheen Ali, U of California, Berkeley; Shafqat Hussain, Trinity College; Humeira Iqtidar, King's College London; Amina Jamal, Ryerson U; Hafeez Jamali, U of Texas at Austin; Iqbak Khattak; Zahra Malkani; Raza Mir; Hammad Nasar; Junaid Rana, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Maliha Safri, Drew U; Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Lahore U of Management Sciences; Ayesha Siddiqa; Sultan-i-Rome, Government Jahanzeb Postgraduate College, Swat, Pakistan; Saadia Toor, Staten Island College. "--

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Dispatches from Pakistan
2014, University of Minnesota Press
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Cover of: Dispatches from Pakistan
Dispatches from Pakistan
2014
in English
Cover of: Dispatches from Pakistan
Dispatches from Pakistan
2014, University of Minnesota Press
in English
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Dispatches from Pakistan
2014, University of Minnesota Press
in English
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2012, LeftWord Books
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Table of Contents

What Does Pakistan Mean? / Pakistan Ka Matlab Kya? -- Habib Jalib
Introduction: Pakistan's Futures -- Madiha R. Tahir, Qalandar Bux Memon, and Vijay Prashad
Several Dawns Over the Indus: three maps -- Zahra Malkani
New Wine in Old Bottles -- Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
The Neoliberal Security State -- Saadia Toor
The Modern Mixed Economy of Pakistan -- Maliha Safri
The Generals' Labyrinth: Pakistan and its Military -- Ayesha Siddiqa
The Desperate U.S.-Pakistan Alliance -- Junaid Rana
I'll be Your Mirror: The Politics of Pakistan's Populism -- Madiha R. Tahir
Feminism and 'Fundamentalism' in Pakistan -- Amina Jamal
Punjab in Play -- Humeira Iqtidar
Blood on the Path of Love: Faisalabad, Punjab -- Qalandar Bux Memon
Balochistan Betrayed -- Mahvish Ahmad
A Tempest in My Harbour: Gwadar, Balochistan -- Hafees Jamali
Swat in Transition -- Sultan-i-Rome
Inside Militancy in Waziristan -- Iqbal Khattak
Poetic Reflection and Activism in Gilgit-Baltistan -- Nosheen Ali
The Nature of Conservation: Conflict and Articulation in Northern Pakistan -- Shafqat Hussain
An Art of Extremes -- Hammad Nasar
Will You Not See the Full Moon / Kya Tum Poora Chaand Na Dekhoge -- Fehmida Riyaz.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
954.9105/3
Library of Congress
DS384 .D57 2014, DS384.D57 2014

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Pagination
xv, 288 pages
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27166936M
ISBN 10
0816692238, 0816692246
ISBN 13
9780816692231, 9780816692248
LCCN
2014001728
OCLC/WorldCat
863196266

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