Violence and Resistance in Pakistan: Spectral States, Fragmented Borderlands and Women’s Agency

This book examines violence and political developments in the western borderland communities of Pakistan through the lens of gendered experiences of insecurity, and will be of interst to researchers of regional-geopolitical security, post-colonial states and militarisation in the Global South, and borderland, gender and South Asian studies.

Faryal Leghari is a researcher, writer, political and security analyst, former journalist and deputy opinion editor. She completed her DPhil from Oxford University in 2024 in feminist political geography. Faryal’s interest in politics, IR, counterterrorism and feminist geography has seen her pursuing different education and career paths in these fields. Faryal identifies as a Baloch and Pakhtun woman from Pakistan’s Koh-i-Suleiman tribal areas bordering southern Punjab. Faryal is an advocate for women’s education and career development. Faryal was among the first women polo players in Pakistan.