This book gives the readers an overview of the history of Makran coast from the ancient days of Gedrosia, Gwadar under Omani control, concerted efforts for its retrocession to Pakistan, to the more recent days of CPEC. It highlights key features of development of...

This book has nine sections each dealing with a general election held between 1970-2008. Each section is divided further into four sub-sections: background, monograph, summary, statistics.

This book identifies and analyzes the impact of the various ways in which local people are responding, taking stands, recapturing their culture, and saying stop' to the violent extremism that has manifested over the past decade (even longer) in Pakistan. Local groups throughout Pakistan...

This book includes tools for you to discover your own strengths and weaknesses before your employer does and to help you discover which fields you may be most suited to. It gives you guidance on how to maximise your impact during an interview to...

This book introduces a dynamic perspective to study white-collar crime. It argues that as personal motives change over time, so too do organizational opportunities, and willingness for deviant behavior.The work contends that the extent of white-collar crime is dependent on the extent of crime...

This book investigates the relationship between modernity and colonial attitudes in the context of Urdu literature. In the first chapter, theories of modernity offered by western critics and thinkers have been debated with the assertion that, on one hand, modernity had a close relationship...

This book is a biography of the author and very skilfully presents a picture of her childhood, juxtaposing childish playfulness with the realities of the urban middle class she lived in. The prose is engrossing because it presents a child's candid and forthright perspective...

This book is a biography/story of two Pakistani entrepreneurs i.e. Faraz Khan and Khusro Ansari written by Shaista Ayesha. It speaks of the revelations about Entrepreneurship, Pakistan and life. It is a very candid account of what the two subjects have experienced till now....

This book is a political memoir. It focuses primarily on this writer's personal and working relationship with Pervez Musharraf from about 1994 when I first met him to the presentin 2022. The text comprises content based on direct first-hand experiences and my recollections of...

This book is a testament to the great work that Vandana has done for the food and ecological movements.-Carlo Petrini, Founder, Slow Foodand Vandana Shiva is the most brilliant woman I know; she is impressive, with a global knowledge of the environmental problems created,...

This book is about Pakistan's most popular Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar whose shrine in Sehwan Sharif is one of the most fascinating sanctuaries in the Muslim world. At the time of pilgrimage, this flourishing cult centre becomes a vibrant place of ecstatic religiosity...

This book is about understanding Pakistan's structural transformation over six decades in a political economy framework. The author examines how and where such transformations have taken place, in the economy, society, in class and gender relations, in manifestations of consumerism and culture, and in...

This book is an anthology of thirty- nine journalistic pieces nine articles and thirty book reviews which appeared in different publicationsand from 2005-2020.Although most of these pieces are still available online and i receive feedback by email even today about some of the articles...

This book is an effort to understand the complexities of US-Pakistan foreign relations during the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001), whose eight years in office crucially span the period between the end of the Cold War and 11 September 2001. This book aims...

This book is an English version of Sayyid Mawdudi's Urduand Khutubat. Originally delivered to ordinary, almost illiterate, farmers and servicemen, it met the real and great spiritual and cultural needs of Muslims, particularly in Southeast Asia, in the twentieth century.It includes sections on belief;...

This book is an introduction to the Sufi heritage of Sindh. I have been documenting the culture heritage of Sindh since 1998.I came across hundreds of shrines during my research spanning two decades. These shrines were located in different districts of Sindh. During my...

This book is based upon my edited English translation of a manuscript, written in Urdu by Shahr Bano Begam, daughter of Nawwab Akbar Ali Khan (1813-1862), of Pataudi and daughter-in-law of Nawwab Abdur Rahman Khan of Jhajjar. The Begum wrote her life story, B?t?...

This book is devoted to the complex relationship between Russian art and the East-be it the Russian East or the Far East-with special focus on the radical artists who shaped the development of modern art a century ago. The rituals of Siberian shamans, the...

This book is neither a iece of literature nor can be termed a case study or account of recovery operation in classical sense. It is an expression of emotions of a Commander for 140 of his men who got burie under millions of tons...

This book is not a biography, it is the author's view of why Jinnah hailed as the best ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity ended up making a separate state in the subcontinent and what his views were on the future shape of Pakistan. Was Pakistan...

This book is part of the Beautiful Names of God series with stories of animals striving to see and appreciate the reflections of God's beautiful names in the nature.

This book is the collection of Top Indian classical stories and those are also used as a reference in different situation. Total fifteen (15) stories are presented in this book. Some of them are Chugal Khoron ki baat na sunne main, badkaron ki saza...

This book looks at 100 items that have profoundly shaped how people watched, studied and engaged with the avian world. Each item contains around 500 words on a double-page spread and include an illustration of the object in question. The book includes the objects...

This book narrates the tumultuous era of total war through the fate of Aachen-Imperial Germany's seat of power for 600 years, site of Charlemagne's coronation as Holy Roman Emperor, and a place with greater geopolitical significance for Adolf Hitler in 1944 than Stalingrad in...

This book offers a framework for understanding the interaction between the academic disciplines 'observing' contemporary political Islam and the individuals and communities being 'observed' practising it. Volpi investigates how different disciplinary approaches in the social sciences explain and understand their 'Islamic' subject matter, revealing...

This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced at sacred spaces and in sacred times through two detailed case studies: the shrines in honour of the head of al-Husayn...

This book offers a unique historiography of the phenomenon of Muslim separatism as it affected and shaped modern South Asia. It describes the journeys of six prominent Muslim leaders of British India: Syed Ahmad Khan, who laid the foundation of the Muslim separatist political...

This book offers an introduction to the archaeology of the Islamic world. It traces the history of the discipline from its earliest manifestations through to the present and evaluates the contribution made by archaeology to the understanding of key aspects of Islamic culture. The...

This book provides a comprehensive perspective on violence, distinguishing it from prior literature that often leans towards assigning blame to one of the involved parties.- Muhammad Iqbal Chawla -University of the Punjab, LahoreWith a deft utilization of archival sources and a seamless integration of...

This book provides a one-volume historical survey of the origins, development, and nature of state power. It demonstrates that Eurasia is home to a dominant tradition of arbitrary rule mediated through military, civil, and ecclesiastical servants, and a marginal tradition of representative and responsible...

This book recounts the history leading to the 1893 Durand Line Agreement between Ameer Abdur Rahman of Afghanistan and British Indian official Sir Henry Mortimer Durand to establish a frontier between Afghanistan and British India. The account continues to the independence of Pakistan in...

This book reviews the recent internal security challenges facing Pakistan. It is a timely and valuable addition to the literature on the subject of governance and the rule of law. It is based upon the author's approximately four decades (1973-2011) of creditable public service...

This book s central thesis is that our cyclical political history is, in fact, like a short movie clip, set on a time-loop, that creates a perpetual dejà vu for those in the theater. Every political scene has been enacted before and is being...

This book studies the wars Pakistan has fought over the years with India as well as other non-state actors. Focusing on the first Kashmir war (1947-48), the wars of 1965 and 1971, and the 1999 Kargil war, it analyses the elite decision-making, which leads...

This book surveys the work done by European artists who visited the Punjab, Sindh and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa between 1845 and 1906, and the royal visits by three British Heirs apparent between 1875 and 1906, and unusually the Russian Czarevitch to Lahore in 1891.and The book...

This book teaches a young audience about the works and lives of thirteen women artists through informative texts, puzzles, coloring exercises, and fun quizzes. In colorful spreads that feature important works as well as portraits of the artists themselves, children will learn how Sofonisba...

This book tracks seventy years of the India-Pakistan interface. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that de_x001F_nes every facet of the relationship. It looks at the main events through the eyes and words of...

This book undertakes a comprehensive study of Pakistan's judicial history since Independence. It includes detailed discussion of the act, lives, and judgments of significant Pakistani judges, with their continuing effects on the life of the nation. One of the three primary organs of the...

This book was the result of a two-day workshop organized by the Department of International Relations, University of Karachi, in collaboration with the Hanns Seidel Fondation, Islamabad.--p. iv.

This book will give you the skills to learn to speak any language with confidence. It uses techniques that can easily be incorporated into your daily life, while making use of whatever resources you have available.Whether you are starting out with your first foreign...

This book will take your breath away, break your heart, and leave you in awe' President Bill Clinton_______Soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines speak in their own words about real life in today's armed forces.These are the brutally honest stories usually only shared amongst comrades...

This books aims to change that. When employees learn how to truly apply their greatest strengths at work, they turbo-charge their career potential and everybody wins. Companies find that their employees are more productive, their teams are more effective, their organization is more innovative...

This classic has become essential reading for anyone interested in the Crusades. Maalouf combed the works of contemporary Arab chroniclers, eyewitnesses and participants in the Crusades. He retells their stories and offers insights into the historical forces that shaped Arab and Islamic consciousness today.

This collection critically examines "tolerance," "secularism," and respect for religious "diversity" within a social and political system dominated by Sufi brotherhoods. Through a detailed analysis of Senegal's political economy, essays trace the genealogy and dynamic exchange among these concepts while investigating public spaces and...

This collection is a fascinating peep into the creative process of artists, writers, poets, musicians and dancers who have gone through the entire lonely journey of creativity and come back to share the result with the rest of the world. It is also a...

This collection of legends surrounding King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table breathes new life into these epics, which have captured the imaginations of people ever since their first telling.

This comprehensive survey of British rule in the Punjab demonstrates that colonial policy-making led to many of the socio-economic and political problems currently plaguing Pakistan and Indian Punjab. Subordinating development goals to its political and military imperatives, the colonial state co-operated with the dominant...

This comprehensive work provides a penetrating analysis of modern Middle Eastern history, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the American invasion of Iraq and Iran's new influence in the region. After introducing the reader to the region's...

This concise book provides the answers to questions that are often of concern, but are rarely asked, much less answered: What is the reality of religion, and why are there so many diverse forms of religion? How did the various religious institutes evolve? What...

This controversial work examines postmodernism from a non-Western perspective, and exposes its claims as a sham. Sardar makes a systematic assessment of the salient spheres of postmodernism - from philosophy and architecture, to film, music and new age religions - and reveals that, contrary...