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6 Juma Khan Sufi, Bacha Khan, Congress and Nationalist Politics in NWFP (Vanguard Books, Lahore, 2005), pp. 1 – 2.
7 Quoted in Ahmad Hasan Dani, Peshawar: Historic City of the Frontier (Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, 2002), p. 172.
8 Interview with the author, Peshawar, 24/8/2008.
9 Joshua T. White, Pakistan’s Islamist Frontier: Islamic Politics and US Policy in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier (Centre on Faith and International Affairs, Washington, DC, 2007), p. 39.
10 Interview with the author, Peshawar, 21/7/2009.
11 Interview with the author, Peshawar, 26/8/2008.
11 THE PAKISTANI TALEBAN
1 Sir Olaf Caroe, The Pathans (1958; reprinted Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006), p. 300.
2 Abdul Salam Zaeef, My Life with the Taleban, ed. Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn (Hurst & Co., London, 2010), pp. 21 – 80.
3 Interview with the Indian Observer online, 16/11/2009, at www.observerindia.com.
4 Pervez Musharraf, In the Line of Fire: A Memoir (Free Press, New York, 2006), p. 201.
5 Seymour Hersh, ‘The Getaway’, New Yorker, 28 January 2002; Ahmed Rashid, Descent into Chaos: How the War against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia (Allen Lane, London, 2008), pp. 91 – 3.
6 Text of speech at transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/12/smn.21.html.
7 Meeting with the media and experts in London, 28/1/2008 (my notes).
8 Matt Waldman, ‘The Sun in the Sky: The Relationship between Pakistan’s ISI and Afghan Insurgents’, Discussion Paper no. 18, Crisis States Discussion Papers, London School of Economics, June 2010.
9 Report on Waziristan and its Tribes (Punjab Government Press, 1901; reprinted Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore, 2005), p. 22.
10 Some vivid anecdotes of this approach (albeit carried out by a Pathan official in the British service) are to be found in John Bowen, Plain Tales of the Afghan Border (Springwood Books, London, 1982).
11 Interview with the author, Islamabad, 2/5/2007.
12 Quoted in Claudio Franco, ‘The Tehrik-e-Taleban Pakistan’, in Antonio Giustozzi (ed.), Decoding the New Taleban: Insights from the Afghan Field (Hurst, London, 2009), p. 272.
13 Ernest Gellner, ‘Flux and Reflux in the Faith of Men’, in Gellner, Muslim Society (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1981), p. 45.
14 Ibn Khaldun, The Muqadmimah: An Introduction to History, trans. Franz Rosenthal, ed. N. J. Dawood (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1967), p. 118.
15 Gellner, Muslim Society, p. 53.
16 Fredrik Barth, Political Leadership among Swat Pathans (London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology, London, 1959), pp. 61 – 2.
17 Brian Robson, Crisis on the Frontier: The Third Afghan War and the Campaign in Waziristan, 1919 – 20 (Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2004), p. 212.
18 Sana Haroon, Frontier of Faith: Islam in the Indo-Afghan Borderland (Hurst, London, 2007), p. 3.
19 Ibid., p. 79.
20 W. R. H. Merk, The Mohmands (1898; reprinted Vanguard Books, Lahore, 1984), p. 12.
21 Barth, Political Leadership, pp. 98 – 9.
22 Hussain Ahmad Madni, 1953, quoted in Haroon, Frontier of Faith, p. 93.
23 Caroe, Pathans, pp. 305 – 6.
24 Merk, The Mohmands, p. 33.
25 In Winston S. Churchill, Frontiers and Wars (reprinted Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1962).
12 DEFEATING THE TALEBAN?
1 Quoted in J. G. Elliott, The Frontier 1839 – 1947 (London, Cassell, 1968), p. 229.
2 My notebook, 28/8/2008.
3 Interview with the author, Faisalabad, 12/1/2009.
4 Interview with the author, Islamabad, 19/1/2009.
5 See, for example, Brian Robson, Crisis on the Frontier (Spellmount, Staplehurst, 2004), pp. 84, 98; and Sir Olaf Caroe’s reminiscences of an incident of mutiny in the South Waziristan Militia in 1905 with which he was personally involved, in his The Pathans (1958; reprinted Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006), Appendix D, pp. 468 – 78.
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