Pakistani Lashkars Join Fight Against Taliban

by TRNN
Tariq Amin-Khan : Pakistani government is playing with fire by arming more tribes with modern weapons.


The violence in North Western pakistan continues to grow. Responding to the upsurge, the Pakistani government approved the deployment of local tribesman or lashkars in its offensive against the Taliban and al qaeda. Professor Tariq Amin-Khan believes the Pakistani government "is playing with fire."

Bio

Tariq Amin-Khan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University. In addition to a PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University in Toronto, he holds a Master’s degree in South Asian Studies from the University of Toronto, and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Karachi in Pakistan. The title of his doctoral thesis is Theorizing the Post-Colonial State in the Era of Capitalist Globalism.