Taliban And Descent Into Chaos Pakistan On The Brink By Ahmed Rashid

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The third book in a trilogy, following Taliban and Descent into Chaos, Pakistan On The Brink by Ahmed Rashid explores what the future of the U.S. relations is with Pakistan and the rest of the region. The book analyses the crisis of Pakistan and the innocent civilians getting affected. The Pakistani journalist is the author of the New York Times bestseller Taliban. He is a regular contributor to the Financial Times and the New York Times. Many believed that after the involvement of the U.S., those regions would improve. However, in this case, it was the opposite. The book explores the U.S. associations with Pakistan and Afghanistan and its impact on them.
As the writer points out in the preface, this is his third book on “the wars in Afghanistan, and on political developments in Pakistan and Central Asia, framed by the U.S. administrations that have tried to tackle these issues.”While living in the developed Pakistani city of Lahore, Ahmed Rashid witnessed the war and political events in the region, particularly Pakistan and Afghanistan, for three decades. The title of the book literally says how Pakistan is on the verge of a political crisis. The intervention of the United States in the Afghanistan war is very controversial. Many Pakistani's support it because the benefit they receive from …show more content…

One revolutionary event during Obama's reign was the September 11 attacks that were coordinated by the Al-Qaeda. On October 7, 2001, the war in Afghanistan began when the U.S. and British forces initiated aerial bombing campaigns targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda camps. They later invaded Afghanistan with ground troops of the Special Forces. The military forces of the U.S. and Iran cooperated with each other to overthrow the Taliban regime which had conflicts with the government of