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To cite this article: Muhammad Ali Qureshi (2014) Daniel S. Markey. No Exit from
Pakistan: America's Tortured Relationship with Islamabad, Asian Affairs, 45:3,
529-531, DOI: 10.1080/03068374.2014.954227
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become East Pakistan and more about the tribal areas of the North West
Frontier (now the Federally Administered Tribal Areas), which of course
were fiercely Muslim before Pakistan was created yet continue to be
treated as outside the ‘settled’ areas of Pakistan.
The book starts with an overview of the problems faced by Pakistan in the
shape of its vulnerabilities and how these weaknesses affect regional
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Pakistan presents different faces according to the kind of audience and the
latter’s history of friendship with the country. The face(s) Pakistan por-
trays to the USA also depends on three strands of anti-Americanism.
The first is primarily a reaction to Washington’s trusted relationship
with the Pakistan military. The second strand reflects a Pakistani sense
that partnership with the USA has never lived up to its strategic
promise, and, finally, the third reflects a view that 1980s US support to
the Afghan Mujahidin fuelled the rise of the most violent anti-American-
ism of the jihadists.
the issue of US drone strikes then halted this cooperative spirit. Issues
related to Af-Pak instead of Pak-Af started to emerge on the scene with
US insistence that Pakistan should do more at a time when Pakistan
was itself involved in a major combat operation against the Taliban of
Swat.