Taliban and Anti-Taliban

摘要

Few topics have aroused as much recent controversy as the precise standing of Pakistan with respect to the various insurgent and terrorist groups of South Asia. Farhat Taj, a Pakistani journalist who has worked recently in Europe, falls emphatically into the camp which finds Pakistan implicated - specifically, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) - in much that is both deplorable and decidedly nasty. What makes the book worth perusing is that rather than ISI's alleged actions in India or Afghanistan, Taj discusses ISI-sponsored violence against fellow Pakistanis in tribal areas of contention, FATA (Federally Administered Tribal Area) and Waziristan.