Writer: Yaqoob Khan Bangash
West Pakistan, on 15 August 1947, was less than half its present size.
Nearly a year of negotiations, arguments, threats, and even chance,
brought nine princely states into the Pakistani fold. Thereafter
followed a long and staggered process of integration.Using hitherto
unused and inaccessi..
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Writer: Roedad Khan
Fifty years after
its creation, Pakistan continues its search for stability. In August
1947, at the time of independence, Pakistan symbolized the wishes and
expectations of the Muslims of the subcontinent, united under the
leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah.
In August 1997, there seems to be..
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Writer: Muhammad Mujtaba Piracha
This book helps deepen our understanding of state-citizen
engagement in Pakistan’s particularly difficult context, especially
around its struggles with establishing stable local governments—a level
of government that is essential to many of its citizens’ most demanded
services—and establishi..
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Writer: Brigadier A.R. Siddiqi (retd.)
Although this book
is about General Yahya Khan’s personal trajectory in the Pakistan Army,
yet it most importantly offers a historical insight into key political
events from 1947 to 1971. The author, popularly regarded as Yahya Khan’s
important PR-man, throws new light on the 1965 war and th..
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Writer: Nafisa Shah
Based on Shah's
unique insights over many years of experience as a journalist,
researcher, and administrator, this fascinating study shows how the
state justice system and informal processes of redress are mutually
implicated in providing a space for honour-related violence, in the
Sindh p..
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Writer: Ishrat Husain
Pakistan faces a multitude of economic challenges some of them man
made and domestic and the other external and natural. There is very
little disagreement on the diagnostics — weak institutions, low
productivity. Low savings and investment, burgeoning burden of debt,
Macroeconomic instabilit..
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Writer: Johanna Spyri
Heidi is a life changer. An orphan child of five, she is sent to live with her gruff grandfather in the Swiss Alps who is soon found changing his grumpy ways in her company. She befriends young Peter, a goatherd, and he is never the same. Peter s blind grandmother is ecstatic when Heidi is around. T..
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Edited by Jan-e-Alam Khaki, Gulab Khan, Mola Dad Shafa, and Sadruddin Bahadur Qutoshi
Educational Leadership Policies and Practices
highlights voices from different developing countries that echo the
need for sustainable, enabling, and liberating educational leadership
that will..
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Writer: Turab ul Hassan Sargana
There is a
historiographical silence about the role of the Punjab during the War of
Independence. Historians have generally employed the elite approach or
the ‘top-down approach’ while writing the history of the war. Since the
elite, including the rajas, feudal lords, and nawabs had collabor..
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Writer: Imran Ali
This comprehensive survey of British rule in the Punjab demonstrates
that colonial policy-making led to many of the socio-economic and
political problems currently plaguing Pakistan and Indian Punjab.
Subordinating development goals to its political and military
imperatives, the colonial sta..
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-16 %
Writer: Sikandar Hayat
Based on the concept of charisma formulated by Max Weber and developed
by recent writers, this second revised edition concentrates on
‘personality-related’ and ‘situational’ factors that led to the
emergence of Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah as the charismatic leader
of Muslim India and su..
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Writer: Ilhan Niaz
This book attempts to explain Pakistan’s crisis of governance in
historical and philosophical terms. It argues that South Asia’s
indigenous orientation towards the exercise of power has reasserted
itself and produced a regression in the behaviour of the ruling elite.
This has meant that in t..
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Writer: Ali Khan
This book seeks to provide unique insights into the social, cultural,
and political changes that Pakistan has experienced since its birth in
1947. These changes are examined through an analysis of Pakistan cricket
and its changing contours with the premise that Pakistan cricket
(including th..
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Writer: Imrana Begum
Since December 1979, when Soviet troops first entered Afghanistan, the
country has remained a focal point in regional and global politics. With
a focus on the 1980s, The Impact of the Afghan-Soviet War on Pakistan
delves into both Afghanistan’s history and the involvement of
superpowers in s..
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Writer: M J Akbar
Nations do not commit suicide, nor die of
accidents or old age. There is, however, a serious malaise within
Pakistan's body politic, arising from one gene within the country's DNA.
The question is not whether Pakistan will survive, but what it will
survive as: a modern democracy or an illibe..
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Writer: Ikram Sehgal
The famous British philosopher and historian, R.G. Collingwood,
suggested that a historian must ‘reconstruct’ history by using
‘historical imagination’ to ‘re-enact’ the thought processes of
historical persons based on information and evidence from historical
sources. That is what the author..
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Writer: Imam Ghazali
This collection of short wisdoms from the
works of Imam al-Ghazali reflects the broad range of his brilliant
intellectual thought. With an emphasis upon literary quality, concision,
and concentration of meaning, each aphorism is full of value and
significance and typifies the tradition of&nb..
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Writer: Taimur Rahman
This work on the class structure of Pakistan is based on the framework
of historical materialism. It sketches the history of the region that is
now Pakistan, and analyzes the class structure from the time of the
Mughal Empire, through the distortions of the colonial era and the
transition to..
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Writer: Syed Shahid Husain
Serving at three places in East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, during the
critical period between 1969 and 1971, Syed Shahid Husain saw the events
unfold and presents in this book an analysis of the roles that each of
the principal actors—Yahya Khan, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, and Zulfikar Ali
Bhutto..
Rs.800
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Writer: Javaid Hayat
This book explores the opportunities and pitfalls of establishing
democracy and legitimate governance in territories with disputed status,
especially where governance systems are fragile and the process of
democratization is hindered due to socio-political fault lines. The
analyses in this s..
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Writer: Lawrence Ziring
Pakistan in the Twentieth Century analyses both the vision and the
reality of a South Asian polity. Beginning with an examination of the
people and forces that shaped the construction of an independent and
predominantly Muslim state within the subcontinent, this historical
study describes th..
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Writer: Muhammad Iqbal Chawla
The political events that took place during Lord Wavell’s Viceroyalty in
India set the stage for all that transpired during the Mountbatten era.
Wavell was in favour of implementing the Breakdown Plan so the British
government could fall back upon a well thought-out course of action when
it ..
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Writer: Tariq Rahman
Winner of the 9th UBL Literary Awards 2020 for the Best Non-Fiction in English
Winner of 2020 KLF-HabibMetro Non-Fiction Prize
In the wake of radical Islamist terrorist attacks described as jihad
worldwide and in South Asia, it is imperative that there should be a
book-length study of this ide..
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Writer: David Warner
Meet Little Davey Warner.
He lives in Sandhill Flats with his mum and dad and his brother Steve –
and his stinky dog Max. Davey and his schoolmates – even Max – are MAD
for cricket. All they want to do is play … but there’s always something
getting in their way.In this first book in the seri..
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Writer: Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Khan
These are the
memoirs of Khan Bahadur Abdur Rahman Khan (1891–1980), a civil engineer
in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP; now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa),
during the British Indian period. A member of the Imperial Service of
Royal Engineers, his memoirs provide a riveting account of the turbu..
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Writer: Ishrat Husain
Essays in Honour of Dr Ishrat Husain
Edited by Vaqar Ahmed & Maaz Javed Foreword by Dr Tariq BanuriThis volume presents diverse perspectives under the theme of Economy,
Welfare, and Reforms in Pakistan. The editors have brought together
leading economists and social scientists..
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