epub |eng | 2015-05-14 | Author:Nisid Hajari [Hajari, Nisid]

As a discouraged Ismay flew back to Delhi on 14 September, Nehru was racing the other way, to attend an emergency summit with Liaquat in the Punjab. Jinnah was not ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-17 | Author:Arundhati Roy

Habba Khatun Poems by a Queen of Kashmir Translated by Nilla Cram Crook Habba Khatun I left my home for play Nor yet again Returned, although the day Sank in ...

epub |eng | 2011-07-12 | Author:Stephen Tankel [Tankel, Stephen]

Pakistan’s Gas Stove Although Pakistan was clamping down on militancy, eliminating its proxy capability would rob the state of what some in the army and ISI perceived to be a ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Yasmin Khan

7 Blood on the Tracks By August 1947 all the ingredients were in place for ethnic cleansing in Punjab: a feeble and polarised police force, the steady withdrawal of British ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Raza Rumi [Rumi, Raza]

In 1657, Dara was appointed as Regent to look after the affairs of the Empire because of his father’s illness. But Emperor Shah Jahan’s illness became a cue for his ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-31 | Author:Brian Cloughley

There was no need for this sort of pietistic stuff (although there may have been chuckles about‘our military aggression’) and Washington considered its tone inappropriate. (A US diplomat in Washington ...

epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Dilip Hiro [Hiro, Dilip]

Proxy Wars on Track While the overtly conducted war games and diplomacy ended satisfactorily, the proxy war by India and Pakistan through RAW and the ISI intensified in 1987. In ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Ayesha Jalal [Jalal, Ayesha]

“You Can Forget Elections” Islamic ideology and military might were the twin pillars on which General Zia-ul-Haq began building his new order.2 Senior civil bureaucrats who encountered him could see ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Carlotta Gall

Taliban prisoners in Shiberghan prison, in northern Afghanistan, after the mass surrender at Kunduz, December 2001. Among them were foreign fighters and survivors of the battle of Qala-i-Janghi. Alan Chin ...

mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-06-28 | Author:Raza Rumi

In 1657, Dara was appointed as Regent to look after the affairs of the Empire because of his father’s illness. But Emperor Shah Jahan’s illness became a cue for his ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:M.J. Akbar

9 Breaking Point There were five ‘swivel’ moments in Congress–Muslim relations before the formation of Pakistan. The pact negotiated by Jinnah in 1916, in which the Congress accepted separate electorates, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Steve Inskeep

10 EMERGENCY NUMBERS This is where we last encountered Dr. Seemin Jamali, the “Incharge” of the emergency department at Jinnah hospital. On February 5, 2010, an argument was boiling at ...

mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Imran Khan

mobi |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Khan, Imran [Khan, Imran]

Chapter Seven The General, 1999–2001 AFTER MUSHARRAF HAD come to power in a military coup in 1999, many of us in Pakistan hoped he might bring a new lease of ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Faith Johnston

Scrounging When Grewal made his decision to team up with Dilip, he used some excuse (now forgotten) to ask for a shift to Cell 5. By this time some of ...