Simmering discord in the tribal badlands
By Selig Harrison | Wednesday, August 1, 2007 | The Boston Globe
Selig Harrison is director of the Asia program at the Center for International Policy and author of “In Afghanistan’s Shadow.” Here he describes the tenuous power balance in Waziristan and its neighboring regions in Afghanistan, in terms of a looming struggle for Pashtun independence. Along the way he catalogs the past blunders of both Pervez Musharraf and Hamid Karzai, and offers a plan to ease tension, empower the Pashtun tribes and make radical Islamic groups like al Qaeda less attractive to the local populations…BS
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