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Filkins describes a crumbling feudal order of maliks left by the British which makes Afghanistan an even more dangerous place for an American project.
09/07/2008
Dexter Filkins points to another factor in Afghanistan. Not only is there a double game- see the link to Playing the Game- where the army, the ISI and many ordinary Muslims in Pakistan are sympathetic to fellow Muslims fighting the Americans, but there is a social change in process. This may be even more dangerous, as the British left a feudal order intact in Pakistan with a wealthy landholding class, In the Pathan or Pashtun countryside it was run through tribal elders called Maliks, in the Punjab the wealthy feudal landholding ran things pretty much the same way as the British did for the last 50 years. Dexter Filkins points to the crumbling of this structure in the Pathan (Pashtun) countryside.
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