Pakistan: A Hard Country. Anatol Lieven This title was selected for the “Daily Telegraph” and “Independent” Books Of the Year. In the past decade Pakistan has emerged as a country of immense importance. Large, heavily populated, strategically placed between Iran, Afghanistan and India, Pakistan has since its creation just over sixty years ago been pulled in several different, irreconcilable directions. In the wake of Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons, Osama Bin Laden’s presence in its unpoliceable border areas, its shelter of the Afghan Taliban, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan to London, Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to understand this remarkable and highly contradictory place. Far…. Click Here to Read More
Playing with Fire: Pakistan at War with Itself A volatile nation at the heart of major cultural, political, and religious conflicts in the world today, Pakistan commands our attention. Yet more than six decades after the country’s founding as a Muslim democracy, it continues to struggle over its basic identity, alliances, and direction. In Playing with Fire, acclaimed journalist Pamela Constable peels back layers of contradiction and confusion to reveal the true face of modern Pakistan.In this richly reported and movingly written chronicle, Constable takes us on a panoramic tour of contemporary Pakistan, exploring the fears and frustrations, dreams and beliefs, that animate the lives of ordinary citizens in this nuclear-armed nation…. Click Here to Read More
The Pakistani Bride: A Novel As a youth, Qasim leaves his tribal village in the remote Himalayas for the plains. Caught up in the strife surrounding the creation of Pakistan, he takes an orphaned girl for his daughter and brings her to the bustling, decadent city of Lahore. Amid the pungent bazaars and crowded streets, Qasim makes his fortune and a home for the two of them. As the years pass, Qasim grows nostalgic about his life in the mountains while his hopelessly romantic teenage daughter, Zaitoon, imagines Qasim’s homeland as a region of tall, kindly men who roam the Himalayas like gods. Impulsively, Qasim promises his daughter in marriage to a tribesman, but Zaitoon’s fantasy soon becomes a grim reality of unquestioning obedience…. Click Here to Read More
The Post-Colonial State and Social Transformation in India and Pakistan This book is an objective study of Pakistan’s foreign relations with the US and UK from 1947 to 1957. Based on recently declassified British and American foreign ministry papers and documents, it focuses on the regional and military pacts that Pakistan entered into with the British and Americans and uncovers many side issues. List Price: $ 35.00 Price:…. Click Here to Read More
Crime and Muslim Britain: Race, Culture and the Politics of Criminology among British Pakistanis (Library of Crime and Criminology) The Britain of the early twenty-first century has become consumed by heightened concerns about violent crime and terrorism in relation to Muslim communities in the West. Here Marta Bolognani fills a major gap in criminology and diaspora studies through an exhaustive investigation into crime among British Pakistanis. Through detailed ethnographic observation and interview data, Bolognani shows how Bradford Pakistanis’ perceptions of crime and control are a combination of the formal and informal, or British and ‘traditional’ Pakistani, that are no longer separable in the diasporic context. She also…. Click Here to Read More
