7.6 /10 1 Votes
Country United Kingdom Publication date 2008 Pages 315 ISBN 9781847393746 | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (paperback) Originally published 2008 Page count 315 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books (2009) Subjects Politics of Pakistan, War on Terror, American imperialism Similar Works by Tariq Ali, South Asia books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tariq ali on his book the duel pakistan on the flight path of american power
The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power is a 2008 book by British-Pakistani writer, journalist, political activist and historian Tariq Ali.
Contents
Synopsis
The book examines Pakistan-United States relations, and is critical of Pakistani subservience to imperialistic American foreign policy and military ambitions. The book examines US aid to Pakistan, and the hostile approach of American politicians to Pakistan. The book also discusses the failure and corruption of President Pervez Musharraf and the situation in Waziristan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Reception
In The Independent Salil Tripathi wrote "In The Duel, Ali provides a gossip-filled, witty and polemical history, revealing, with perspicacity and verve, the flight into the abyss" and "Ali recounts, with anguish and anger, how the generals who ruled Pakistan for 34 of its 60 years boosted defence budgets, starving development of resources". In a Peace News review, Milan Rai described the book as "a highly timely, well-informed, readable, sometimes-not-very-chronological study of Pakistan’s political evolution".