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Author: Raja Anwar Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1859848869 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Terrorist Prince is a gripping insider’s account of the Pakistani resistance organization Al-Zulfikar (in Urdu, “The Sword”), set up in 1979 after the coup by General Ziaul-Haq and the execution of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Raja Anwar, the author, was an advisor to Prime Minister Bhutto and one of the organizers of the campaign to save his life after his conviction on a trumped-up murder charge. Named as a traitor by Zia, and liable to execution if arrested, Anwar sought asylum in Germany. But when Bhutto’s sons Murtaza and Shahnawaz asked him to join them, he agreed and participated in the founding of Al-Zulfikar. Raja Anwar recounts the transformation of Al-Zulfikar into a terrorist group, run by Murtaza Bhutto as his own exclusive fiefdom. In 1981, the organization hijacked a Pakistani airline en route to Kabul. Twice it came close to assassinating Zia. For his opposition to Murtaza’s leadership, Anwar was imprisoned in Kabul for four years. Murtaza himself was killed by the police in Karachi in 1996. Raja Anwar draws unmistakably convincing portraits of the obsessively ruthless Murtaza, his lieutenant, chief executioner and eventual victim, Salamullah Tipu, and the young workers who sacrificed their lives for a corrupted cause. Rich in detail available only to a participant in the turbulent events it portrays, The Terrorist Prince brilliantly fuses the tension and pace of a political thriller with the veracity of first-rate reportage. It is a compelling narrative of ruptures which continue to divide a deeply troubled Pakistan.
Author: Raja Anwar Publisher: Verso Books ISBN: 1859848869 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
The Terrorist Prince is a gripping insider’s account of the Pakistani resistance organization Al-Zulfikar (in Urdu, “The Sword”), set up in 1979 after the coup by General Ziaul-Haq and the execution of Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Raja Anwar, the author, was an advisor to Prime Minister Bhutto and one of the organizers of the campaign to save his life after his conviction on a trumped-up murder charge. Named as a traitor by Zia, and liable to execution if arrested, Anwar sought asylum in Germany. But when Bhutto’s sons Murtaza and Shahnawaz asked him to join them, he agreed and participated in the founding of Al-Zulfikar. Raja Anwar recounts the transformation of Al-Zulfikar into a terrorist group, run by Murtaza Bhutto as his own exclusive fiefdom. In 1981, the organization hijacked a Pakistani airline en route to Kabul. Twice it came close to assassinating Zia. For his opposition to Murtaza’s leadership, Anwar was imprisoned in Kabul for four years. Murtaza himself was killed by the police in Karachi in 1996. Raja Anwar draws unmistakably convincing portraits of the obsessively ruthless Murtaza, his lieutenant, chief executioner and eventual victim, Salamullah Tipu, and the young workers who sacrificed their lives for a corrupted cause. Rich in detail available only to a participant in the turbulent events it portrays, The Terrorist Prince brilliantly fuses the tension and pace of a political thriller with the veracity of first-rate reportage. It is a compelling narrative of ruptures which continue to divide a deeply troubled Pakistan.
Author: Derek Prince Publisher: Dpm-UK ISBN: 9781908594723 Category : Christian life Languages : en Pages : 462
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Six Books in One Volume which Includes Personal Study Questions & Answers THE DIVINE EXCHANGE The entire message of the Gospel revolves around one historical event: the sacrificial death of Jesus on the Cross. HOW TO PASS FROM CURSE TO BLESSING Helps you recognise where curses come from, how they operate and how you can be released from them to enjoy the full blessing of God. THE HOLY SPIRIT IN YOU Guides you into the fullness of an intimate relationship with God through His Holy Spirit. GOD'S MEDICINE BOTTLE Discover the power of God's Word to overcome sickness and keep you in health. SPIRITUAL WARFARE The Christian life is a battle against Satan and his power; you can walk in victory. SELF STUDY BIBLE COURSE Learn how to study God's Word and experience its power to change your life.
Author: Madiha Afzal Publisher: Brookings Institution Press ISBN: 0815729464 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 174
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Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has come to be defined exclusively in terms of its struggle with terror. But are ordinary Pakistanis extremists? And what explains how Pakistanis think? Much of the current work on extremism in Pakistan tends to study extremist trends in the country from a detached position—a top-down security perspective, that renders a one-dimensional picture of what is at its heart a complex, richly textured country of 200 million people. In this book, using rigorous analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews in schools and universities in Pakistan, historical narrative reporting, and her own intuitive understanding of the country, Madiha Afzal gives the full picture of Pakistan’s relationship with extremism. The author lays out Pakistanis’ own views on terrorist groups, on jihad, on religious minorities and non-Muslims, on America, and on their place in the world. The views are not radical at first glance, but are riddled with conspiracy theories. Afzal explains how the two pillars that define the Pakistani state—Islam and a paranoia about India—have led to a regressive form of Islamization in Pakistan’s narratives, laws, and curricula. These, in turn, have shaped its citizens’ attitudes. Afzal traces this outlook to Pakistan’s unique and tortured birth. She examines the rhetoric and the strategic actions of three actors in Pakistani politics—the military, the civilian governments, and the Islamist parties—and their relationships with militant groups. She shows how regressive Pakistani laws instituted in the 1980s worsened citizen attitudes and led to vigilante and mob violence. The author also explains that the educational regime has become a vital element in shaping citizens’ thinking. How many years one attends school, whether the school is public, private, or a madrassa, and what curricula is followed all affect Pakistanis’ attitudes about terrorism and the rest of the world. In the end, Afzal suggests how this beleaguered nation—one with seemingly insurmountable problems in governance and education—can change course.
Author: Asia Eiman Jamil Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 142
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A Prince who Destroyed my Life, is a book of identifying some of the structural and ideological obstacles to gender equality in Pakistan through story of a minor girl who is wedded off at the tender age of 13 to a 35-year-old highly qualified man from affluent family. PAGHONDA, the main character of the story is gifted with alluring looks which results in her drop-out from school for her safety & protection and early childhood marriage. She is envied by everyone on her big day both for her beauty and luck. PAGHONDA is attached to two persons; her cousin BREKHNA and her Dolly. At the time of her rukhsati, PAGHONDA had to take the pain of separation from them both. PAGHONDA in her new house, learns to settle down by complying with values of her new family. She is always told that women are "honor of the family" while "men are the protectors". She tries to submit to her man's needs by insisting that he lets her bring her dolly to her new home, the husband allows it and with it the hardships of her life begin. PAGHONDA's mother-in-law is a conventional woman; the perpetrator and strong supporter of patriarchy. The moth-in-law wants PAGHONDA to give her a grandson, but PAGHONDA couldn't conceive in few years of her marriage, and afterwards she gives birth to a girl, followed by another. PAGHONDA faces the wrath of her mother-in-law for giving birth to girls and when she conceives for the 3rd time, her mother-in-law threatens to take her for sex selective abortion, but the reports of sonography changes everything." PAGHONDA is not expecting a girl", reported to the mother-in-law on her insist by ultra-sound technician. The moments were celebrated by her family as if it weren't a girl, it could obviously be a boy, but that turned out to be something, no one had thought about. PAGHONDA has given birth to a baby with atypical genitalia and is left on her own in the hospital. She couldn't abandon her baby and goes to her home, but the baby is not accepted by the family and is given to a "guru", leader of transgenders who take unwanted children into her care. To save honor of the family, everyone is told that the newborn died soon after birth and the father buried him. A deep sense of loss never left PAGHONDA since the time of relinquishment of her baby and she experiences the stages of DABDA (Denial-Anger-Bargaining-Depression & Acceptance). PAGHONDA struggles to find out her baby and in her attempts, she lacks trust in herself as the protector of her kids. PAGHONDA the victim of Benevolent sexism, loses her race against patriarchy and leaves her kids to BREKHNA. BREKHNA survival of sexual assault, turned out to be an exceptionally strong girl, accomplishing the mission of PAGHONDA and many other girls who either face early childhood marriage, gender-biased abortion, incest, body-shaming or ambivalent sexism.
Author: Zahid Hussain Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 9780190704193 Category : Languages : en Pages : 372
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This book explores the post-9/11 relations between the US and Pakistan. The growing divergence between Washington and Islamabad has taken an already uneasy alliance to a point of estrangement. Yet, a complete breakup is not an option. The underlying cause of the tension, within the partnership the two had entered on 13 September 2001, has never been fully understood. What is rarely discussed is how Pakistan's decision to ally itself with the US pushed the country into a war with itself; the cost of Pakistan's tight roping between alignment with the US and old links with the Afghan Taliban; and its long-term implications for the region and global security. This book elucidates implications for Afghanistan in the so-called war on terror while revealing US and Pakistan's foreign policy initiatives. The author explores all this through little known facts and through the players involved in this cloak and dagger game. The book tells the story behind the headlines: how equivocal is ISI's break with the Afghan Taliban fighting the coalition forces in Afghanistan; the shootout in Lahore involving a CIA agent; and the killing of Osama bin Laden.
Author: Ayesha Jalal Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674744993 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 448
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Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
Author: Paula Bronstein Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 9781477309391 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 0
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Winner, International Photography Award, 1st Place, Professional: Book, Documentary, 2016 The Afghan people are standing at a crucial crossroads in history. Can their fragile democratic institutions survive the drawdown of US military support? Will Afghan women and girls be stripped of their modest gains in freedom and opportunity as the West loses interest in their plight? While the media have largely moved on from these stories, Paula Bronstein remains passionately committed to bearing witness to the lives of the Afghan people. In this powerful photo essay, she goes beyond war coverage to reveal the full complexity of daily life in what may be the world's most reported on yet least known country. Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear presents a photographic portrait of this war-torn country's people across more than a decade. With empathy born of the challenges of being an American female photojournalist working in a conservative Islamic country, Bronstein gives voice to those Afghans, particularly women and children, rendered silent during the violent Taliban regime. She documents everything from the grave trials facing the country—human rights abuses against women, poverty and the aftermath of war, and heroin addiction, among them—to the stirrings of new hope, including elections, girls' education, and work and recreation. Fellow award-winning journalist Christina Lamb describes the gains that Afghan women have made since the overthrow of the Taliban, as well as the daunting obstacles they still face. An eloquent portrait of everyday life, Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear is the most complete visual narrative history of the country currently in print.
Author: Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha Publisher: Pluto Press (UK) ISBN: 9781786800114 Category : Civil-military relations Languages : en Pages : 0
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Pakistan is a strategic ally of the US in the 'war on terror'. It is the third largest recipient of US aid in the world. Yet Pakistan is a state run by its army and intelligence service. Operating in the shadows, Pakistan's military industrial complex owns and controls swathes of the economic and political landscape of the country. Military Inc. dares to illuminate the military as an oppressive holding company possessing not just security-related businesses, but also hotels, shopping malls, insurance companies, banks, farms and even an airline. The result is a deeply undemocratic society, where money is funnelled towards the military's economic enterprises, leaving those in need of it impoverished and effectively disenfranchised. With an empirical richness, and a view to Pakistan's recent history, Ayesha Siddiqa offers a detailed and powerful case study of a global phenomenon: corruption, hollow economic growth and elitism. This new edition includes a chapter on the recent developments of the military's foray into the media, and a new preface.
Author: Daniel S. Markey Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107045460 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 261
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This book tells the story of the tragic and often tormented relationship between the United States and Pakistan. Pakistan's internal troubles have already threatened U.S. security and international peace, and Pakistan's rapidly growing population, nuclear arsenal, and relationships with China and India will continue to force it upon America's geostrategic map in new and important ways over the coming decades. This book explores the main trends in Pakistani society that will help determine its future; traces the wellsprings of Pakistani anti-American sentiment through the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations from 1947 to 2001; assesses how Washington made and implemented policies regarding Pakistan since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001; and analyzes how regional dynamics, especially the rise of China, will likely shape U.S.-Pakistan relations. It concludes with three options for future U.S. strategy, described as defensive insulation, military-first cooperation, and comprehensive cooperation. The book explains how Washington can prepare for the worst, aim for the best, and avoid past mistakes.
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