Dexter Filkins says it was Pakistan’s regional foreign policy since the mid-nineties (which we have characterized in our class discussions as at least in part ”jihadist”) that landed Pakistan where it finds itself today. One could make an argument that jihadism in Pakistan’s foreign policy goes back even further: to the mid-seventies and the regime of Zia al-Haq.
Dexter Filkins, “The Long Road to Chaos in Pakistan,” New York Times, Sept. 28, 2008
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