Inside the Pakistan Army [Hardback]

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Description of Inside the Pakistan Army

Inside the Pakistan Army tells the terrifying truth behind the West’s key ally on the war on terror. The Pakistan Army is at the forefront of the West’s plans in the middle-east, policing the border with Afghanistan and the lawless tribal agencies where Osama bin Laden is said to be hiding.

Its success or failure is critical to the West’s hopes of halting the spread of Islamist extremism. If the Pakistan Army fails to stamp out the Taliban insurgency, it could become unstoppable.

However, the Pakistan Army itself is full of contradictions. Its officers may have the clipped voices and moustaches of their British imperial predecessors but they are by no means immune to the anti-western passions prevalent in the region, nor indeed to bribery, making their reliability as allies highly questionable. Senior commanders in the army have been known to secretly make deals with the Taliban, rather than engage it openly, leading to consequences on both sides of the Pakistan – Afghanistan border with reverberations in the West.

Having spent five years so closely embedded in the Pakistan Army that they even had a uniform made for her, Carey Schofield is better placed than anyone to investigate an issue that is of vital relevance and importance to contemporary foreign policy in the West.