The Siddique, Abubakar creator text monographic xxii, 271 pages : illustrations, maps ; Twenty-first century Pashtuns: continuity amid catastrophe -- From peaceful borderlands to incubators of extremism -- The Taliban in power -- War in Waziristan -- Vanishing tribes -- Terror in Pakhtunkhwa -- Simmering Balochistan: a Taliban haven -- Old and new Islamists in Loy Nangarhar -- Tribes, communists and generational jihadists in Loya Paktia -- The new Taliban in Loy Kandahar -- Crafting a peacful future. Pushtuns Pushtuns Pushtuns / Afghanistan Pushtuns / Pakistan International relations Pushtuns 324.245 SID 9781849042925 (hbk.) 1849042926 (hbk.)