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Tinderbox – The Past and Future of Pakistan

March 22, 2015

Indians and Pakistanis are the same people: Why then have their nations moved on such different trajectories since freedom in 1947? The idea of India is stronger than the Indian, and the idea of Pakistan has proved weaker than the Pakistani. Pakistan was not born across a breakfast table. It was the culmination of a […]
Apocalyptic Realm: Jihadists in South Asia

March 22, 2015

This hard-hitting and timely book explores the roots of militant Islam in South Asia and how it has grown to become a source of profound global alarm. By meticulously tracking the rise of the jihadist movement from its initial violence in Afghanistan in 1980 to the present day, Dilip Hiro challenges conventional narratives of the […]
Never In Your Wildest Dreams: Help me, Pakistan is Drowning – One Woman’s Desperate Cry to the World for the 21 Million at the Risk of Perishing

March 22, 2015

BBC, Martha Vineyard Times and the Hindustan Times all told her story. But for the first time, Noor Aftab writes the real life account of her life in 2010 – when U.N. termed it as the greatest tragedy on Earth. The July of 2010 the flood gates of Indus opened, all hell broke loose. 21 […]
The Vale of Kashmir

March 22, 2015

A world-renowned photographer’s spectacular tribute to the land and people of this remote region.The Vale of Kashmir celebrates the people and landscape of Kashmir and the unique way of life that has developed there. John Isaac set out to create a work that would honor both the cultural complexity and the breathtaking beauty of this […]
Pakistan: A Hard Country

March 22, 2015

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 […]
Afghanistan and Pakistan: Conflict, Extremism, and Resistance to Modernity

March 22, 2015

This timely study surveys the conflict in Afghanistan from Pakistan’s point of view and analyzes the roots of Pakistan’s ambiguous policy—supporting the United States on one hand and showing empathy for the Afghan Taliban on the other. The author, a former foreign secretary of Pakistan, considers a broad range of events and interweaves his own […]
Geo-Politics of Pakistan: Advantages and Disadvantages

March 22, 2015

Being a key Player in the South Asian Politics since cold war era, Pakistan has always remained in limelight of World Politics. This book provides a comprehensive account of the history of advantages and disadvantages accrued by Pakistan across the period of its independence till 2008. Must Read for People interested in Geo-politics. Sale Price:buy […]
The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War

March 22, 2015

A journalist explores his family’s history to reveal the hybrid cultural and political landscape of Pakistan, the world’s first Islamic democracy Shahan Mufti’s family history, which he can trace back fourteen hundred years to the inner circle of the prophet Muhammad, offers an enlightened perspective on the mystifying history of Pakistan. Mufti uses the […]
Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Civilization was Discovered

March 22, 2015

Just a century ago, scholars believed that civilization in the Indus Valley began three thousand years ago during the Vedic Age. But in the autumn of 1924, John Marshall made an announcement that rocked the understanding of the ancient world and pushed back the boundaries of Indian history by two thousand years more: the discovery […]
Blasphemy: A Memoir: Sentenced to Death Over a Cup of Water

March 22, 2015

In June 2009 a Pakistani mother of five, Asia Bibi, was out picking fruit in the fields. At midday she went to the nearest well, picked up a cup, and took a drink of cool water, and then offered it to another woman. Suddenly, one of her fellow workers cried out that the water belonged […]

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