Frontier of fear : [Book] : confronting the Taliban on Pakistan's border / David L. Gosling.

By:

Gosling, David L [author.]

Contributor(s):

Hawking, Stephen

Material type: Text

TextDescription: xiv, 274 pages : ; 20 cmISBN:

9781784534684 (hardback)
9780857729934 (epub)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

378.549123 23

Other classification:

378.549123

Summary: The troubled borderland of Pakistan and Afghanistan– the so-called AfPak region?is one of the most dangerous areas of the world. Between 2006 and 2010 David L. Gosling lived in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where he was principal of Edwardes College, a prestigious higher education college, affiliated with the University of Peshawar. In this book, Gosling describes his time at Edwardes College and the challenges and changes of his tenure. Already the first co-educational college in the province, Gosling significantly increased the proportion of female students and staff. The book also describes the early stages of Taliban growth in Afghanistan, its spill-over into the tribal borderlands of Pakistan and how a combination of Pakistan army activity and US drone strikes provoked a furious backlash by Taliban groups against civilian targets in and around Peshawar, including death threats against the author. Providing a personal account of the education and politics of this frontier region, this book offers a unique viewpoint on a part of the world which is often misunderstood.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad Ground Floor	378.549123 GOS-F (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		54197
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad Ground Floor	523.1 HAW-G (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		57781

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The troubled borderland of Pakistan and Afghanistan– the so-called AfPak region?is one of the most dangerous areas of the world. Between 2006 and 2010 David L. Gosling lived in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where he was principal of Edwardes College, a prestigious higher education college, affiliated with the University of Peshawar. In this book, Gosling describes his time at Edwardes College and the challenges and changes of his tenure. Already the first co-educational college in the province, Gosling significantly increased the proportion of female students and staff. The book also describes the early stages of Taliban growth in Afghanistan, its spill-over into the tribal borderlands of Pakistan and how a combination of Pakistan army activity and US drone strikes provoked a furious backlash by Taliban groups against civilian targets in and around Peshawar, including death threats against the author. Providing a personal account of the education and politics of this frontier region, this book offers a unique viewpoint on a part of the world which is often misunderstood.

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