Afghanistan-Pakistan relations: border controversies as counter-terrorist impediments

Qassem, Shayeq

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Afghanistan-Pakistan relations: border controversies as counter-terrorist impediments

Date

2007

Authors

Qassem, Shayeq

Publisher

Carfax Publishing, Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract

When the Taliban regime was overthrown in Afghanistan in late 2001, there was much optimism that, with the anticipated and unprecedented economic, political and military engagement of the international community with Afghanistan, the country would become