Product Description The shocking, three-decade story of A. Q. Khan and Pakistan?s nuclear program, and the complicity of the United States in the spread of nuclear weaponry.?On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan?a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland?stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear…
Category: Books about Pakistan
Pakistan: A Modern History
ISBN13: 9780230623040 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product Description This book fills the need for a broad, historically sophisticated understanding of Pakistan, a country at fifty which is understood by many in the West only in terms of stereotypes–the fanatical, authoritarian and reactionary “other” which…
Pashtun Tales: From the Pakistan-Afghan Frontier
Product Description ?Witty, macabre, beautiful and poignant.??The Independent on Sunday These stories were collected in the tribal areas of the Pakistan-Afghan border, a region once described as ?the last free place on earth,? where the caravan routes from Persia, India, and China historically converged. Blending wit, fantasy, comedy, and romance,…
To Live or to Perish Forever: Two Tumultuous Years in Pakistan
Product Description ?A fascinating account of [Schmidle?s] years in Pakistan . . . The story of two Pakistans the author discovered: one beautiful and friendly, the other frightening and deadly.??Booklist Nicholas Schmidle beat the Pakistani army into Taliban country. In October 2007, just weeks before thousands of troops, backed by…
Pakistan: Between Mosque And Military
Product DescriptionAmong U.S. allies in the war against terrorism, Pakistan cannot be easily characterized as either friend or foe. Nuclear-armed Pakistan is an important center of radical Islamic ideas and groups. Since 9/11, the selective cooperation of president General Pervez Musharraf in sharing intelligence with the United States and apprehending…
Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway
ISBN13: 9781741045420 Condition: NEW Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark. Product DescriptionDiscover Pakistan & the Karakoram Highway Travel the Karakoram Highway along the route of the fabled Silk RoadCome face to face with ancient Indus Valley civilizations at MoenjodaroAnswer the call of a million-dollar mosque with rocketing minarets…
The Man from Pakistan: The True Story of the World’s Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler
Product DescriptionThe world has entered a second nuclear age. For the first time since the end of the Cold War, the threat of nuclear annihilation is on the rise. Should such an assault occur, there is a strong likelihood that the trail of devastation will lead back to Abdul Qadeer…
Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam
Product Description After September 11, 2001, Pakistan’s president, Pervez Musharraf, vowed to fight extremism in his country and has since established himself as a key ally in America’s “global war on terror.” But as veteran Pakistani journalist and commentator Zahid Hussain reveals in this book, Musharraf is in an impossible…