ABSTRACT
The epicentre of Pakistan’s war Pakistan’s strategic approach to managing disorder in its Pashtun areas – the epicentre of Pakistan’s post-9/11 war – was in part an inheritance from the British era. The events of a hundred years prior had established certain parameters of strategic thought, and established certain administrative and security practices, from which Pakistan had chosen not to free itself from entirely and that came to play an important role when Pakistan was confronted by a series of desperate choices in the frontier region in the twenty-first century. This chapter revisits the history of the Afghan-Pakistan frontier region in order to discern the origins of some of Pakistan’s predilections for dealing with unrest there.
