Author: Inam R Sehri
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2011 - 2013. First book in the series.
The Living History of Pakistan (2011-2013)
Author: Inam R Sehri
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2011 - 2013. First book in the series.
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810661
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 475
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2011 - 2013. First book in the series.
The Living History of Pakistan (2011-2016)
Author: Inam R Sehri
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1786238284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Karachi, a mega city of about 25 million now, has been burning since two decades in spreading blaze of target killings, extortion, organised robberies, kidnapping for ransom, sectarian blasts and massive corruption by ruling political regimes. Later, the city became Taliban’s refuge and a battleground for neighbouring Muslim countries. Since 25 years, nothing has been written about Karachi’s affairs because of dreadful apprehensions, horror and fears of being eliminated. First time, the two volumes [c 815 pages] of that city’s complete diary has been compiled to keep the history intact.
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1786238284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Karachi, a mega city of about 25 million now, has been burning since two decades in spreading blaze of target killings, extortion, organised robberies, kidnapping for ransom, sectarian blasts and massive corruption by ruling political regimes. Later, the city became Taliban’s refuge and a battleground for neighbouring Muslim countries. Since 25 years, nothing has been written about Karachi’s affairs because of dreadful apprehensions, horror and fears of being eliminated. First time, the two volumes [c 815 pages] of that city’s complete diary has been compiled to keep the history intact.
The Living History of Pakistan (2012-2013)
Author: Inam R Sehri
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 180381067X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2012 - 2013. Second book in the series.
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 180381067X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2012 - 2013. Second book in the series.
Pakistan
Author: Imran Khan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0857500643
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
'Pakistan' tells the fascinating history of the country as seen through the eyes of one of its most famous sons, Imran Khan.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0857500643
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
'Pakistan' tells the fascinating history of the country as seen through the eyes of one of its most famous sons, Imran Khan.
The Living History of Pakistan (2016-2017)
Author: Inam R Sehri
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2016 - 2017. Seventh book in the series.
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810696
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2016 - 2017. Seventh book in the series.
The The Living History of Pakistan (2015-2016)
Author: Inam R Sehri
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2015 - 2016. Sixth book in the series.
Publisher: Grosvenor House Publishing
ISBN: 1803810688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
The history of Pakistan from 2015 - 2016. Sixth book in the series.
The Unraveling
Author: John R. Schmidt
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429969075
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups? In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan's involvement with radical Islam, John R. Schmidt, the senior U.S political analyst in Pakistan in the years before 9/11, places the blame squarely on the rulers of the country, who thought they could use Islamic radicals to advance their foreign policy goals without having to pay a steep price. This strategy worked well at first--in Afghanistan during the anti-Soviet jihad, in Kashmir in support of a local uprising against Indian rule, and again in Afghanistan in backing the Taliban in the Afghan civil war. But the government's plans would begin to unravel in the wake of 9/11, when the rulers' support for the U.S. war on terror caused many of their jihadist allies to turn against them. Today the army generals and feudal politicians who run Pakistan are by turns fearful of the consequences of going after these groups and hopeful that they can still be used to advance the state's interests. The Unraveling is the clearest account yet of the complex, dangerous relationship between the leaders of Pakistan and jihadist groups—and how the rulers' decisions have led their nation to the brink of disaster and put other nations at great risk. Can they save their country or will we one day find ourselves confronting the first nuclear-armed jihadist state?
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429969075
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
How did a nation founded as a homeland for South Asian Muslims, most of whom follow a tolerant nonthreatening form of Islam, become a haven for Al Qaeda and a rogue's gallery of domestic jihadist and sectarian groups? In this groundbreaking history of Pakistan's involvement with radical Islam, John R. Schmidt, the senior U.S political analyst in Pakistan in the years before 9/11, places the blame squarely on the rulers of the country, who thought they could use Islamic radicals to advance their foreign policy goals without having to pay a steep price. This strategy worked well at first--in Afghanistan during the anti-Soviet jihad, in Kashmir in support of a local uprising against Indian rule, and again in Afghanistan in backing the Taliban in the Afghan civil war. But the government's plans would begin to unravel in the wake of 9/11, when the rulers' support for the U.S. war on terror caused many of their jihadist allies to turn against them. Today the army generals and feudal politicians who run Pakistan are by turns fearful of the consequences of going after these groups and hopeful that they can still be used to advance the state's interests. The Unraveling is the clearest account yet of the complex, dangerous relationship between the leaders of Pakistan and jihadist groups—and how the rulers' decisions have led their nation to the brink of disaster and put other nations at great risk. Can they save their country or will we one day find ourselves confronting the first nuclear-armed jihadist state?
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
Author: Declan Walsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249921
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249921
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.
Pakistan
Author: Anatol Lieven
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven's book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep political tensions, and historical patterns of violence; but also its surprising underlying stability, rooted in kinship, patronage, and the power of entrenched local elites. Engagingly written, combining history and profound analysis with reportage from Lieven's extensive travels as a journalist and academic, Pakistan: A Hard Country is both utterly compelling and deeply revealing.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
ISBN: 1610391624
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven's book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep political tensions, and historical patterns of violence; but also its surprising underlying stability, rooted in kinship, patronage, and the power of entrenched local elites. Engagingly written, combining history and profound analysis with reportage from Lieven's extensive travels as a journalist and academic, Pakistan: A Hard Country is both utterly compelling and deeply revealing.
Muslim Zion
Author: Faisal Devji
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1849042764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.
Publisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1849042764
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.