num_pages: 88
description: Al Qaida, Taliban, Pakistani Deobandis - all of these groups are based in Pakistan, which continues to serve as regional hub for Islamist movements and their terrorist offshoots. This book investigates and explains gestation of interlinked radical Islamist networks of Pakistan, Central Asia, and Afghanistan, out of which Al Qaida emerged.
language: English
title: Islamist Networks: The Afghan-Pakistan Connection
publisher: Columbia University Press