Product DescriptionThe personal accounts contained here, reveal the untold experiences and relationships of an ethnographer with the people she lived and worked among for over 10 years in northwestern Pakistan among Afghan refugees and tribal Pakistani Pashtuns. They are the everyday occurrences and personal experiences of a woman living alone, or with her infant daughter, [...]
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Product DescriptionA college kid designs a machine to clear radio transmissions. The CIA used the machine to decipher Taliban communications. As the work progresses, they uncover nuclear plans to build a bomb in the United States. It is a race against time, for the scientists bend in destroying America, the CIA trying to stop them, [...]
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Product DescriptionRecent events in Pakistan and the Islamic world have sparked an unprecedented level of interest in the relationship between Islam and democracy. In the Shadow of Shari’ah sets out to prove that Islam and the democratic ethos are neither compatible nor incompatible in any permanent or specific sense. Rather, the two work more or [...]
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Product DescriptionIn August 2008, Pervez Musharraf stood down as Pakistan’s president after having already resigned the posts of Chief of Army Staff and Prime Minister. It was a final end to a dictorial rule that started when he seized power in a military coup in 1999, and seemed to many to be the inevitable conclusion [...]
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Product DescriptionThis is a biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the story of the creation of Pakistan. At a time of much interest and concern about Pakistan in the international community, this volume provides a historical context which helps in an understanding of the present. It traces the development of the Muslim identity on the [...]
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Product DescriptionThis account of Pakistan’s complicated political mosaic focuses on ethnic tensions within the country, the Mohajir movement, Pashtun and Baloch nationalisms, and the “Punjabization” of the country. Contributors also look at the country’s complex position within the South Asian region, including its foreign policy, and the dialectic between domestic and foreign policy, and the [...]
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Product DescriptionThe Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics examines key issues in politics of the five independent states of the South Asian region: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Written by experts in their respective areas, this Handbook introduces the reader to the politics of South Asia by presenting the prevailing agreements and disagreements [...]
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Product DescriptionPopular representations of Pakistan’s North-West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime in neighboring Afghanistan enhanced the region’s reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Immersed in the lives of the Frontier’s villagers for more [...]
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Product DescriptionHilali provides an excellent study into the US-Pakistan partnership under the Reagan administration. The book explores the causes of Pakistan’s involvement in the Afghanistan war and the United States’ support to prevent Soviet adventurism. It shows that Pakistan was the principal channel through which assistance was provided to Afghan freedom fighters; it also provided [...]
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Product Description A History of Pakistan and its Origins is a comprehensive, detailed and fully up-to-date study of one of the most diverse, volatile and strategically significant countries in the world today. Born in turmoil barely half a century ago, Pakistan seems to be in an interminable pursuit of its own identity and at the [...]
Written on July 14, 2010 | Posted in
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