Pakistan: Between Mosque And Military | 
 enlarge | Author: Husain Haqqani
Publisher: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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Pages: 395
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Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 5.8 x 1.2
ISBN: 0870032143
Dewey Decimal Number: 322.509549
EAN: 9780870032141
ASIN: 0870032143
Publication Date: July 2005
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Among U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence with the United States and apprehending al Qaeda members has led to the assumption that Pakistan might be ready to give up its longstanding ties with radical Islam. But Pakistans status as an Islamic ideological state is closely linked with the Pakistani elites worldview and the praetorian ambitions of its military. This book analyzes the origins of the relationships between Islamist groups and Pakistans military, and explores the nations quest for identity and security. Tracing how the military has sought U.S. support by making itself useful for concerns of the moment--while continuing to strengthen the mosque-military alliance within Pakistan--Haqqani offers an alternative view of political developments since the countrys independence in 1947.
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 Insightful but poorly structured July 5, 2008
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military provides powerful and thoughtful insights specially for the Pakistani youth brought up during the heyday of "islamization".
Haqqani commences with an intense vivisection of the "ideology of Pakistan", arguably the most overused, misconstrued and manipulated version of Pakistan's history. An academically inclined audience might consider the first chapter a rehash of views already presented by noted historians like Ayesha Jalal, but his contribution lies in cleansing the literature of its academic complexity and having the audacity to be clear and simple. For the majority of Pakistani youth meticulously reprogrammed in schools to believe that the "two-nation theory" traces its roots to the conquest of Mohammad bin Qasim; the book is nothing less than an "insolent heresy". Haqqani struggles to place the popular war song, "Aay Rah-e-Haq kay shaheedon" in unfamiliar surroundings.
Though fueled by a captivating start; the book spirals into a monotonous chronology of events. Later chapters, lack the broader analysis and at times the reader would find himself painstakingly sifting through a poorly indexed "encylopedia".
Overall, Husain Haqqani has done a very good job. Surely not for the well informed but highly recommended for students interested in knowing about Pakistan's jugglery with religion.
Interesting insights; poorly structured March 25, 2008
Given Haqqani's close relationship with several recent Pakistan governments, I had been looking forward to reading his text.
On the pluses, the book is well researched, with several interesting insights and facts which maintained my curiosity. For instance, it was surprising to learn of the ISI's active interest in Afghanistan which began in 1973 (6 years before the USSR's invasion). Then there were the specifics about Benazir's foreign policy options during her first prime ministerial office being largely curtailed by the army.
On the minuses, Haqqani failed on the book's higher conceptual thinking - specifically he failed to adequately relate the interesting facts with enough of a meaningful conceptual framework. The book feels like a laundry list of events, a boring chronology book (not even a history book, let alone a European IR text) when it really needed to explore the core concepts more powerfully. The book is after all supposed to be focused on the relationship between Pakistan's 'Mosque and Military'.
My guess is that the author rushed the book. Students who have had to write a thesis may appreciate my next comment more easily than others. This book gave me the impression that the author had written the first draft, proofed for typos and run to the printers. I would have thought that if he had allowed a gestation period, even a few weeks, he would have been able to self-reflect that little bit more and push the conceptual dimension.
 Pakistan: Between Mosque And Military September 22, 2006
7 out of 36 found this review helpful
Mr. Haqqani's views about his mother country are very dubious. The only question I have for the author as he served in some very corrupt governments as their partner...What has he done for his home land? Nothing!!! This book in waste of time.
 Realistically Real August 28, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
After listening to the author speak on NPR, I purchased this book.
It is an eye opener and troublesome to know what really goes on in the mosques and their connection to terrorism.
This book is both troublesome and worrisome for the reader, but I can think of no better qualified source to write from the perspective of inside of this regime and government.
Cause for concern? Read it.
Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military July 11, 2006
10 out of 14 found this review helpful
This is quite simply the best book on Pakistan that has ever been written, for it finally pierces the veil of deception which the Pakistani military has succeeded in drawing over the true nature of its long-term strategy. The book documents in great depth and detail that behind its "deny, lie, smile" foreign policy, Pakistan's military has: 1) Fomented and conducted a vicious insurgency in Kashmir; 2) Supported anti-American jihadist Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and the Taliban to first conquer and now destabilize Afghanistan; 3) Nurtured and manipulated Islamist parties to help destabilize and dismiss elected majorities in the Pakistan parliament; and 4)Used these same Islamist factions as a recruiting base for terrorism directed against India and Afghanistan, creating a threat to the West as well.
Author Haqqani doesn't address the issue of how America let Pakistan get the bomb. Let's hope he is working on another book to deal with that US foreign policy fiasco!
Between Mosque and Military should be read by Secretary of State Rice, and the book's findings should lead to a change in our policy toward Pakistan.
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