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Intellectually acute, impressively researched, and strongly argued. -Anatol Lieven The American Prospect Thought-provoking... Those interested in helping shape the country's future will come away understanding why now is the time to move on with clarity. - Middle East Journal A well documented, provocative study...of considerable interest to scholars and foreign policy specialists. -Choice Shaikh's knowledge is encyclopedic, her methods of analysis simple but intense, her writing beautifully lucid there is nobody better to explain what Barack Obama calls the most dangerous place in the world. -Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia [Afghanistan] is also -- as Farzana Shaikh makes clear in her brilliant new book, Making Sense of Pakistan -- just another victim of the batty, contorted rivalry between New Delhi and Islamabad for subcontinental influence. - The Guardian A scholarly and erudite study of the competition to define and establish a national identity for Pakistan. - H-Asia Farzana Shaikh has analyzed the contemporary dilemmas and predicaments of Pakistan with skill and finesse. By far the best book I have read on our neighboring country in recent years. -Owen Bennett Jones, author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm

Intellectually acute, impressively researched, and strongly argued. -Anatol Lieven The American Prospect Thought-provoking... Those interested in helping shape the country's future will come away understanding why now is the time to move on with clarity. - Middle East Journal A well documented, provocative study...of considerable interest to scholars and foreign policy specialists. -Choice Shaikh's knowledge is encyclopedic, her methods of analysis simple but intense, her writing beautifully lucid there is nobody better to explain what Barack Obama calls the most dangerous place in the world. -Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia [Afghanistan] is also -- as Farzana Shaikh makes clear in her brilliant new book, Making Sense of Pakistan -- just another victim of the batty, contorted rivalry between New Delhi and Islamabad for subcontinental influence. - The Guardian A scholarly and erudite study of the competition to define and establish a national identity for Pakistan. - H-Asia Farzana Shaikh has analyzed the contemporary dilemmas and predicaments of Pakistan with skill and finesse. By far the best book I have read on our neighboring country in recent years. -Owen Bennett Jones, author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm Erudite and persuasive . . . this is a book that should be read.a a The New Indian Express

Intellectually acute, impressively researched, and strongly argued.-Anatol Lieven The American Prospect Thought-provoking... Those interested in helping shape the country's future will come away understanding why now is the time to move on with clarity.- Middle East Journal A well documented, provocative study...of considerable interest to scholars and foreign policy specialists.-Choice Shaikh's knowledge is encyclopedic, her methods of analysis simple but intense, her writing beautifully lucid there is nobody better to explain what Barack Obama calls the most dangerous place in the world.-Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia [Afghanistan] is also -- as Farzana Shaikh makes clear in her brilliant new book, Making Sense of Pakistan -- just another victim of the batty, contorted rivalry between New Delhi and Islamabad for subcontinental influence.- The Guardian A scholarly and erudite study of the competition to define and establish a national identity for Pakistan.- H-Asia Farzana Shaikh has analyzed the contemporary dilemmas and predicaments of Pakistan with skill and finesse. By far the best book I have read on our neighboring country in recent years.-Owen Bennett Jones, author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm Erudite and persuasive . . . this is a book that should be read. $e $e The New Indian Express

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Farzana Shaikh is an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and the author of Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947. A well known commentator on Pakistan, she has lectured and written widely on the country in the course of an academic career that has included positions in the UK, the US and Europe.

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