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Shadow War: The Untold Story of Jihad in Kashmir (Hardcover)

by Arif Jamal (Author)

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Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Melville House (May 19 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 193363359X
ISBN-13: 978-1933633596
Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 522 g

Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)

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For nearly sixty years, India and Pakistan have battled over the territory of Kashmir. The two nuclear-armed states have fought three bloody wars in the region, but the countries have also fought in the shadows.

Having interviewed nearly a thousand militants in war-torn Kashmir, Arif Jamal presents a news-breaking account of Pakistan's secret battles with India. From the early 1980s, when the Kashmiri conflict lurked in the background of the CIA's proxy war in Afghanistan, to the eruption of insurgent violence in 1988, to recent Kashmiri connections to terrorist financing and training, Jamal brings much to light.

Jamal reveals that the Pakistani military has trained nearly half a million insurgents and, as a matter of defense policy, continued the conflict at great human cost. He also shows how CIA money destined for the Afghan mujahideen was funneled to Kashmiri jihadis, leading to a twenty-year insurgency rarely discussed in Western media.

A contributing writer to The New York Times, Arif Jamal is currently a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University. A leading Pakistani reporter, he has written for the Pakistan Times, The News, and international media such as Radio France International and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

About the Author

A contributing writer to the New York Times, Arif Jamal is currently a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights policy at Harvard. He has written for The Pakistan Times, The News, Radio France International, and the CBC.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Extraordinarily insightful summary of an important conflict, Jun 5 2009

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Militant insurgencies in India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Central Asian republics represent one the most important challenges in global security today. The tendency of the Pakistani military and ISI to use Islamic terrorism as an instrument of foreign policy is at the heart of the problem, yet there is paucity of well researched, concise information on the matter. Hence I was greatly anticipating the new book from Pakistani journalist Arif Jamal, some of whose articles I had previously read.

Shadow War was an excellent read. Indeed, I finished it in two sittings. In the introduction, Jamal describes the manner in which he sourced and verified his information. He spent hundreds of hours interviewing Kashmiri militants over eleven years(who struck me as surprisingly liberal with information given the activities they are involved in). He also used a wealth of secondary sources. He then goes on to paint a fascinating picture of the how several generations of Pakistani military, political, and intelligence officials used jihadi violence as a strategy to wrest Jammu and Kashmir from India and absorb it into Pakistan. In the process, Kashmiri society, which largely avoided communal riots at Partition, was convulsed into brutal violence, rising fundamentalism and communalism, and the flight of nearly the entire Hindu population from the Valley.

The book does not give much cause for optimism, but it is essential reading for those interested in learning more about this important conflict. Certainly those officials designing America's South Asia policy the new Obama administration would do well to read this book!

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