Product DescriptionEducational planning for developing countries is a much more strenuous and unpredictable enterprise than its name suggests. Among its hazards are the mental and physical strain, including illness, to which the foreign adviser is subject, the often critical absence of data, the instability of the economy, and particularly the idiosyncrasies of politicians and administrators. Through his own experience as a consultant to developing nations, Mr. Curle became intimately familiar with the problems and responsibilities of the foreign expert. In his wryly realistic view, the advisor, far from being a remote and godlike figure, is thrust in the middle of confusing and often frustrating conditions. He emphasizes the need for…. Read more

Product DescriptionPathans of the Latter Day is a sequel to the author’s The Way of the Pathans written more than forty years ago and frequently cited in literature on Pakistan’s north-west frontier since. It is a self-contained volume based on return visits to the Frontier in the 1980s and 1990s.A combination of history, personal experience, and interpretation, Pathans of the Latter Day details the origins and structure of the volatile tribesmen living along Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan, their highly developed code of law, Pukhtunwali, their acceptance of Pakistan, their relations with their Chinese neighbours, and their experiences during the wars in Afghanistan.A quietly humorous anecdotal style provides vivid glimpses of life…. Read more

Product DescriptionThis book describes its Khan’s involvement in the formation of Pakistan. The author, a former ambassador to Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq focuses on his experiences as part of the early diplomatic aristocracy. The book will captivate its readers with both its insider’s history of the country and the many insights for current and future generations. A Pathan…. Read more

Product DescriptionNational relations between countries are often a victim of manipulation of people’s sentiments by the de facto rulers of the countries. This is true of the relationship between Pakistan and India. For most of the six decades since 1947, Pakistan has been under ‘one-party’ (military) rule which, for its own survival and hegemony over political parties, has kept up the anti-India pot boiling in the name of national existence, liberation of Kashmir, Islam and the Ummah (the global nation of Islam). India has been ruled by successive secular, civilian parties for most of its first 60 years since independence. Paradoxically, during the brief six years of the coalition government led by the fundamentalist Bharatiya…. Read more

Product DescriptionAn insightful case study of Pakistan’s economic development during the past fifty years which demonstrates that the benefit of this development has predominantly affected a small class of elites while the majority of the population remains illiterate, poor. and backward. Pakistan: The Economy of an Elitist…. Read more