The Unraveling: Pakistan in the Age of Jihad

by John R. Schmidt

Book Overview

How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups?? In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan's involvement with radical Islam, John R. Schmidt, the senior U.S political analyst in Pakistan in the years before 9/11, places the blame squarely on the rulers of the country, who thought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374280436
• ISBN13: 9780374280437
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.9"