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Frontier of Fear : Confronting the Taliban on Pakistan's Border by David L. Gosling is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Frontier of Fear : Confronting the Taliban on Pakistan's Border about?
The troubled borderland of Pakistan and Afghanistan the so-called AfPak region is one of the most dangerous areas of the world. Between 2006 and 2010 David L. Gosling lived in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, where he was principal of Edwardes College, a prestigious higher education college, affiliated with the University of Peshawar. In this book, Gosling describes his time at Edwardes College and the challenges and changes of his tenure. Already the first co-educational college in the province, Gosling significantly increased the proportion of female students and staff. The book also describes the early stages of Taliban growth in Afghanistan, its spill-over into the tribal borderlands of Pakistan and how a combination of Pakistan army activity and US drone strikes provoked a furious backlash by Taliban groups against civilian targets in and around Peshawar, including death threats against the author. Providing a personal account of the education and politics of this frontier region, this book offers a unique viewpoint on a part of the world which is often misunderstood.'
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- Author
- David L. Gosling
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780857727961
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, Political Science, Islam
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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