The Troubled Triangle: US-Pakistan Relations under the Talibans Shadow [Paperback]

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the Taliban, and how it has affected post-9/11 US-Pakistan relations.

Zafar Iqbal Yousafzai is Senior Research Associate for South Asia and Central Asia at Strategic Vision Institute (SVI), an Islamabad-based think tank, Pakistan. He has widely published on South and Central Asia, Taliban, Pakistan foreign policy, U.S. policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan, terrorism, great power politics in the region, Afghan peace process, Pak-Afghan relations, and Chinas interests in Afghanistan. He regularly contributes pieces to various national and international newspapers and magazines. He is regular columnist at Daily Times, Pakistan. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from University of Malakand (Dir), M.A. in Political Science from University of Peshawar, Peshawar, and M. Phil in International Relations from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

As Afghanistan enters a yet more brutal phase in its long running civil war this brilliant new study gives us an in depth look at the politics and motives of the major players. A timely and comprehensive study of all the moving parts and personalities that have constituted the long civil war in Afghanistan. Zafar Yousufzai brings fresh insight, analysis and detail into his excellent study of the origins and continuation of the Afghan wars. I highly recommend this book.

Ahmed Rashid, Author of Taliban, The New York Times bestseller

 

Zafar Yousafzai assesses an extremely important topic in this book  the relationships between Afghanistan, Pakistan and the United States. Its particularly interesting to read Yousafzais examination of the seemingly constant revisions of these relationships. His discussion of terrorism is also an important contribution.