n the course of a few years, Pakistan has assumed strategic importance
on the world stage, acting as both a linchpin in the global war on
terrorism and a "swing" state in the ideological conflict between
democracy and dictatorship, and between Islamic and secular rule. How
did this poor coun..
This
book analyses Pakistan’s foreign policy and external relations with a
focus on contemporary developments, including the impact of the new
government of Prime Minister Imran Khan, the powerful military, and the
"middle power" status.Structured in two parts –
Foundation and Operationali..
This book provides a comprehensive account of the mysterious story
of Pakistan's attempt to develop nuclear weapons in the face of severe
odds. Hassan Abbas profiles the politicians and scientists involved, and
the role of China and Saudi Arabia in supporting Pakistan's nuclear
infrastructur..
Doing
well with money isn’t necessarily about what you know. It’s about how
you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people.Money―investing,
personal finance, and business decisions―is typically taught as a
math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what..
Recent writings on Pakistan have tended to focus on the role of
the Pakistan Army, the nuclear programme, terrorism, Pak-Afghan and
Pak-US relations and, of course, Indo-Pak relations. Pakistan: Courting
the Abyss goes beyond sensationalist headlines and current crises like
terrorism and ten..
The leading journalist on Pakistan lays out America's options with Pakistan and Afghanistan in the post-Bin Laden years. What
are the possibilities-and hazards-facing America as it withdraws from
Afghanistan and as it reviews its long engagement in Pakistan? Where is
the Taliban now in both th..
The
Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a
country of their own. They inhabit a continuous stretch of land from the
Hindu Kush to the Indus, across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan used
the Pashtun-dominated areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas
(FATA..
Fascinating vignettes about the men and woman who ruled Pakistan
What did Muhammad Ali Jinnah say when he received a royal salute from
the last British regiment about to leave Pakistan? Did Ayub Khan
consider turning Pakistan into a monarchy? Why was Yahya Khan so
confident that the 1970 ele..
This book examines the rise of religious extremism in Pakistan,
particularly since 1947, and analyzes its connections to the Pakistani
army's corporate interests and U.S.-Pakistan relations. It includes
profiles of leading Pakistani militant groups with details of their
origins, development,..
Balochistan, Pakistan's largest province, is a complex region
fraught with conflict and hostility, ranging from an enduring insurgency
and sectarian violence to terror strikes and appalling human rights
violations. In his third book on Pakistan, Tilak Devasher
analyses why Balochistan is suc..
Nadeem Farooq Paracha's quest to explore various questions of identity in the nation-state of Pakistan continues. In this sixth book of his, The Reluctant Republic, he ventures even deeper to investigate the history of statist-nationalist narratives in Pakistan and how the country's diverse ethnic, ..
Author, cultural critic and historian nadeem farooq paracha details the history of muslim modernism - a 19th century idea which further evolved in the the early 20th century and inspired the creation of a separate muslim-majority country, pakistan. Paracha explores how this idea became part of the n..
Sufism has always been
a contested space in Pakistan. Successive governments, political
parties, and religious organizations have attempted to co-opt it or
reject it to suit their own political agendas. Since the turn of the
millennium, however, the Pakistani government has made a conscious ..
Romeo and Juliet, one of the greatest love stories ever told . . . in texts?!
Imagine: What if those star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet had
smartphones? A classic is reborn in this fun and funny adaptation of one
of Shakespeare’s most famous plays! Two families at war. A boy an..
Psychiatrist Viktor
Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions
of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival.
Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl
argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to ..
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, one of the greatest stories ever told . . . in texts?!
Imagine: What if the fairies and star-crossed lovers of the forest had
smartphones? A classic is reborn in this fun and funny adaptation of one
of Shakespeare’s most famous plays! Four lovers who can’..
Hamlet, one of the greatest stories ever told . . . in texts?!
Imagine: What if Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, and the tragic Ophelia
had smartphones? A classic is reborn in this fun and funny adaptation of
one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays! A kingdom on the brink of war. A st..
Based on 30 years
of research and analysis, this definitive book is a profound,
multi-layered, and historical analysis of the nature and role of the
Pakistan Army in the country’s polity as well as its turbulent
relationship with the United States. Shuja Nawaz examines the army and
Pakista..
Considered one of the
masterpieces of world literature, " The Big Red Book" is perhaps the
greatest work of Rumi, the medieval Sufi mystic who also happens to be
the bestselling poet in America.Rumi was born in 1207 to a long
line of Islamic theologians and lawyers on the eastern edge of the..
The
No.1 international bestselling author back with a powerful and
provocative exploration of why we so often misread other people
The routine traffic stop that ends
in tragedy. The spy who spends years undetected at the highest levels
of the Pentagon. The false..
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
came from a wealth family of feudal landowners in Sind. Although
west-ernized by education in the United States and in England, he became
the champion of the Third World when he was appointed the youngest
Foreign Minister in Asia in 1962. Disillusioned with his
one-time..
In Boys Will Be Boys, Sara Suleri returns to her childhood and early adulthood to pay tribute to her father, the political journalist Z A Suleri (known as Pip, for his "patriotic and preposterous" disposition). Taking its title from that jokingly chosen by her father for his unwritten autobiography,..
My Brother is the
biography of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, by his sister
Fatima Jinnah. It is thought that the publication of Hector Bolitho's
book, Jinnah Creator of Pakistan in 1954 prompted Miss Jinnah to write
about her brother as it was felt that Bolitho's book had fai..
From the bestselling author of The Speed of Trust,
a revolutionary new way to lead, deemed “the defining leadership book
in the 21st century” (Admiral William McRaven, author of Make Your Bed) that “every parent, teacher, and leader needs” (Esther Wojcicki, author of How to Raise Successful Peop..
Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has come to be defined exclusively in terms of its struggle with terror. But are ordinary Pakistanis extremists? And what explains how Pakistanis think?Much of the current work on extremism in Pakistan tends to study extremist trends in the country from a detach..
n this finely wrought memoir of life in postcolonial Pakistan,
Suleri intertwines the violent history of Pakistan's independence with
her own most intimate memories—of her Welsh mother; of her Pakistani
father, prominent political journalist Z.A. Suleri; of her tenacious
grandmother Dadi and..
A lot of professors
give talks titled 'The Last Lecture'. Professors are asked to consider
their demise and to ruminate on what matters most to them: What wisdom
would we impart to the world if we knew it was our last chance? If we
had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?Whe..
In the opening scene of Arms and the Man,
which establishes the play's embattled Balkan setting, young Raina
learns of her suitor's heroic exploits in combat. She rhapsodizes that
it is "a glorious world for women who can see its glory and men who can
act its romance!" Soon, however, such ro..