The book explores the contribution of common people, including Muslim students, women, mystics, laborers, peasants, small-businessmen and low-cadre of government employees, of existing Pakistani territory in the Pakistan Movement, from...

This book is not only about tales of Kings, Queens and Empires. It also chronicles Punjab history through the toil and sweat of its people, their songs, their romances, their...

In this inspiring book Professor Akbar Ahmed continues his personal quest of bridging the gap between the Orient and the West, as he did in his earlier books and projects....

This collection presents the evocative poetry of Faiz Ahmed Faiz, masterfully translated into English by Victor Kiernan. It captures the profound social and political themes inherent in Faiz’s work, conveying...

Immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 11, Noam Chomsky's always tightly scheduled life ratcheted several levels higher in intensity. In the months that followed, he gave a great many...

This is a companion volume to Prof. Aziz's 'A History of the Idea of Pakistan' and it reprints the documents he used for researching a part of the period he...

CASE OF CIVIL & MILITARY GAZETTE (1946-1947)

PROFIT OVER PEOPLE is Noam Chomsky at his best. His critique of our political and economic system is brilliant and devastating. This is a powerful rush of facts and ideas....

نفسیاتی ٹیسٹ اور تشخیصی مراکز عملے کے انتخاب کی تکنیک ہیں جو اب ہر جاب ہنٹر کی ہینڈ بک میں نظر آتی ہیں۔ یہ کتاب تھیوری پر برسوں کی تحقیق...

Next to the methods and decrees of the British government, the most important part of our modem history is composed of the activities and functions of the parties and movements...

This book focuses on the central issues in the development of agriculture and the rural economy of Pakistan. A major emphasis is on explaining the agricultural transformation process and examining...

This book is packed with information about attitudes towards not only the national language Urdu; an international language English; and a local language Punjabi in Pakistan and its effects on...

یہ محبوب کلاسک ذاتی اور پیشہ ورانہ دونوں مسائل کو حل کرنے کے لیے ایک اصول پر مبنی نقطہ نظر پیش کرتا ہے۔ تیز بصیرت اور عملی کہانیوں کے ساتھ،...

آپ کامیاب قیادت کے کلیدی اصول سیکھیں گے جیسے وژن، اثر و رسوخ، ذمہ داری اور عزم۔ یہ مشکل وقت میں جذباتی توازن برقرار رکھتے ہوئے اپنے اور اپنی ٹیم...

This is a study of twenty Islamic themes of contemporary importance. Each theme bears two versions: Qur'anic and non-Qur'anic. The latter is familiar because it has dominated Islamic perceptions, thought...

Rahmat Ali was the first Indian Muslim to argue the 2-nation theory in irrefutable syllogism, to demand a sovereign Muslim state in the sub-continent, and to establish a movement to...

Reaping the Whirlwind provides the first comprehensive profile of the Taliban in the twenty-first century. Drawing on numerous interviews with key protagonists, conducted over a period of several years, Michael...

Reclaim Your Heart is not just a self-help book. It is a manual about the journey of the heart in and out of the ocean of this life. It is...

(I) The Commission shall review and make a clear, precise and implementable set of recommendations in respect of: (a) the division of functions, responsibilities and accountabilities among the federal, provincial...

This is the first authoritative book on the phenomenon of piri-muridi in Pakistan. The author investigates the subject in the perspectives of history, religion. society, politics and economy. He asks...

The paradox of General Musharrafs years in power was that he was a "liberal" ruler under whom Pakistan became a religious- extremist society. He advocated 'enlightened moderation' but was rebuffed...

In this final volume of his selected shorter works Professor AM recalls some prominent personalities whom he has intimately known or studied in the course of his research. In the...

This book narrates how Pakistan Army soldiers reached out to rescue trapped U.S soldiers, following a U.S sting operation that went awry, wherein two Black Hawk helicopters went down in...

The book is based on the proceedings and papers of a conference held in Lahore in April 1993. The conference was sponsored by the Canadian International development Agency (CIDA) and...

This book discusses the lives, missions, characters, roles, struggles and achievements of the prophet revolutionaries of Islam. These men appeared in pre-capitalist times to liberate humanity from the yoke of...

With a rare mastery of history, religions, and depth psychology, Dr. Kamran Ahmad leads us through the Journey of the Soul in Heer, Ranjha, discovering what may be the only...

KI BHOOLI HUI MERAS

یہ کتاب استقامت اور استقامت کے ساتھ درد یا مصیبت کو برداشت کرنے کے قدیم یونانی فلسفے سے متاثر ہوتی ہے۔ اسٹوکس ان چیزوں پر توجہ مرکوز کرتے ہیں جن...

In many third world countries the astounding rate of urbanization and the related problems of housing and employment are caused not only by natural urban increase but by an enormous...

An immaculate political biography of Ruttie Jinnah by a Pakistani civil servant-cum-scholar Saad S. Khan, co-authored by former head of Jinnah Academy and his better half, Sara Khan. Painstakingly researched...

OR KALHANA'S RAJATARANGINI

This is a blow by blow account of the Imran Khan regime 2018-2022 that promised so much and delivered so little. The “IK story” began in 2011 when Pakistan’s military...

Afghanistan Studies, All Products, History, Non Fiction, Politics and International Relations, Vanguard Publications

Secular Muslim: Jinnah, His Politics and Pakistan covers Pakistan's founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah's political journey from start to finish. It also explores the origin of classical liberalism and moderate secularism...

ہمارے زمانے کا سب سے بڑا راز یہ ہے کہ دریافت کرنے کے لیے ابھی تک نامعلوم سرحدیں موجود ہیں اور نئی ایجادات تخلیق کی جا رہی ہیں۔ زیرو ٹو...

This book presents signature pedagogies in teacher education. It presents a very comprehensive framework of creative and innovative pedagogies. The examples that it presents were conceptualized and implemented in the...

ذہانت کو عام طور پر سوچنے اور سیکھنے کی صلاحیت کے طور پر دیکھا جاتا ہے، لیکن تیزی سے بدلتی ہوئی دنیا میں، علمی مہارتوں کا ایک اور مجموعہ ہے...

Think and Grow Rich کو "تمام تر موٹیویشنل لٹریچر کا گرینڈ ڈیڈی" کہا جاتا ہے۔ یہ پہلی کتاب تھی جس نے دلیری سے پوچھا، "کیا چیز فاتح بناتی ہے؟" وہ...

The environment throughout Pakistan is being increasingly degraded and supplies of natural resources are increasingly falling short of demands. The primary causes of this situation —growing population, a developing economy...

Sufism has always been a contested space in Pakistan. Successive governments, political parties, and religious organizations have attempted to co-opt it or reject it to suit their own political agendas....

This innovative volume offers a comprehensive analysis of the issues surrounding South Asia's precarious security. Going far beyond common considerations of border defense and regime, the contributors rigorously trace the...

The book is an account of: How the state caused the loss and damaged heritage monuments and mounds. How an opportunity of having a natural history museum in district Chakwal...

This second volume of Professor K. K. Aziz's selected writings and addresses opens with a moving piece on the meaning of prayer. Then follow 3 lectures on culture: the way...

Vanguard Books has decided to bring out a selection of Professor K K Aziz's scattered shorter writings in 3 volumes. This is the first to be published and consists of...

This book provides not only a detailed account of the mysterious personality of Bayazid Ansari, the Roshniya Movement but also explores the sixteenth century political, religious and cultural landscapes of...

طلبہ، والدین، استاتزہ کے لئے

کچھ قوانین ہوشیاری کی ضرورت سکھاتے ہیں ("قانون 1: کبھی بھی ماسٹر سے آگے نہ بڑھو")، دوسرے اعتماد کی قدر سکھاتے ہیں ("قانون 28: دلیری کے ساتھ ایکشن میں داخل...

کیا آپ کامیابی چاہتے ہیں؟آپ کے پاس اب سے زیادہ کامیابی ہے؟اور اس سے بھی زیادہ کامیابی جس کا آپ نے کبھی تصور بھی نہیں کیا؟اس کتاب کے بارے میں...

The Assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan delves into the pivotal event that shaped Pakistan’s early political landscape. This detailed account examines the circumstances, motives, and repercussions surrounding the assassination of...

Since its creation in 1947, the basis of Pakistan polity has caused endless controversy regarding its ideological foundations. The discussion has been articulated in terms of a God versus a...

Everyone knows me. All of Lahore, all of Karachi, all of Isloo — oho, baba, Islamabad — half of Dubai, half of London and all of Khan Market and all...

They are unknown but they cover an area of more than one million hectares, which is close to 10% of all irrigated land in Pakistan: spate irrigation systems. Also called...

Moni Mohsin's accomplished and moving first novel deals not only with the aftermath of a dangerous love, but with its effects on an entire community; retribution, revenge, and the terrible...

Qadiryar (1802-1891) is not nearly as well-known as his great predecessors Baba Farid, Shah Hussain, Sultan Bahu, Bulleh Shah and Waris Shah. The fame he enjoys rests on his si...

The Five Biggest Lies Bush Told Us About Iraq' is the comprehensive source on the administration's campaign of disinformation before, during, and after the second Gulf War. From the careful...

Rai Bahadur Sir Ganga Ram (13th April 1851-10th July 1927) was a renowned Indian civil engineer and architect. His extensive contributions to the urban fabric of Lahore prompted Khaled Ahmed...

Khalid Hasan Is back with more racy stuff about people and politics in Pakistan. This latest collection of his articles has it all. ZAB, Paiz, Manto, Skipper Kardar, A.S. Bokhari,...

Afghanistan has long been a country in turmoil. For decades, imperial powers, Islamic fundamentalists, tribal warriors, and communists have struggled for control of a nation that is geographically and ethnically...

Because Pakistan is marinated in crisis, attention is riveted on the latest outrage, disaster, or calamity to occur in the country. The often-asked question following such events is whether they...

In recent years Pakistan has emerged as a strategic player on the world stage - both as a potential rogue state armed with nuclear weapons and as an American ally...

The objective of this book is to examine the problem from a perspective common to Muslims, without losing sight of the key interests and concerns of the West. The book...

This is a serious scholarly narrative about the past history of relationship between the judiciary and the executive in Pakistan. It also describes the different trends of the judiciary in...

Nazir Akbarabadi (1735-1830) was a remarkable Urdu poet of the sub-continent, who stands out as being distinct from the romantic or mystic mainstream of medieval Urdu poetry. He was a...

This is the first full length study of the life and works of Manto to appear in the forty years since his death. Considering that he was amongst the foremost...

An ever-expanding body of literature continues to concentrate on the supposed role the madrassah, or religious school, plays in threatening international security. Even though none of the 9/11 attackers studied...

Some word of explanation seems due when an unknown writer obtrudes a personal narrative on the public. My reason for writing this book was, that as the story of the...

This book is not an orthodox history of the Pakistani armed forces. Instead, it is an attempt to present the "imagined" history of the army and the impact of this...

In Pakistani schools and colleges what is being taught as History is really national mythology, and the subjects of Social Studies and Pakistan Studies are nothing but vehicles of political...

In The Pakistan Anti-Hero, Paracha further explores the political and social evolution of Pakistan's polity which he first investigated in his best-selling debut, End of the Past. He expands this...

This book deals with one of the most essential conditions of human existence: the health of individuals and society. The author has described the multi-faceted structure of health care in...

Colin Turner’s analysis of Nursi’s Episties of Light presents Nursi’s commentary on the Quran in an especially interesting manner for an English-speaking audience. The topics of Nursi’s episties including nature...

Nadeem Farooq Paracha's quest to explore various questions of identity in the nation-state of Pakistan continues. In this sixth book of his, The Reluctant Republic, he ventures even deeper to...

The report of the Hamoodur Rehman Commission of Inquiry into the 1971 War As Declassified by the Government of Pakistan is more than just an investigation into what happened in...

VERNACULAR CULTURE IN COLONIAL PUNJAB

SOME TIME in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One...

In no region of the world have changes in religion and ethnic identity had a greater impact on political life than in the three countries that are the subject of...

These twelve stories, each by a different hand, are the stuff of dreams, pain, longing, fear and hope. People from anywhere are here, but they speak and cry in Urdu,...

The Teaching of English in Pakistan appraises the quality of English Language Teaching at the tertiary level. The study researches five major colleges of Lahore and presents its findings on...

This book approaches the subject of tax reform from basic economic principles. The objectives are to develop guidelines for the design of tax policy; to show how the principles can...

Punjabi Words in English and Urdu Script

The Venture of Islam' has been honored as a magisterial work of the mind since its publication in early 1975. In this three-volume study, illustrated with charts and maps, Hodgson...

دلیل ہے کہ سوچ ایک ایسی مہارت ہے جسے تیار کیا جا سکتا ہے، خیال، پس منظر کی سوچ، اور فیصلہ سازی کے بارے میں مشورہ دیتا ہے، اور بتاتا...

A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH THE FORCE UNDER GENERAL SIR F. S. ROBERTS, G. C. B.

Northern Pakistan - the ancient crossroads in the heart of Asia - is a land of secluded valleys and flower-strewn alpine pastures, surrounded by soaring peaks and shimmering glaciers. This...

All Products, Non Fiction, Pakistan Studies, Politics and International Relations, Vanguard Publications

Both Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif didn't acquit themselves well in the "trial of democracy" from 1988 to 1993. They did worse confronting the "dilemma of democracy" from 1993-1999 -...

This is the first volume of a series of books by veteran journalist Najam Sethi on Pakistan's sputtering journey under democracy from 1988 to 2021 after it emerged from a...

This is the second volume of a series of books by veteran journalist Najam Sethi on Pakistan's sputtering journey under democracy from 1988 to 2021 after it emerged from a...

To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the United States formed an extraordinary anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces; in South Asia. In this controversial and acclaimed book,...

March 1947. A four-year-old Salima Hashmi is witness to the Sikh leader, Master Tara Singh and his many followers denouncing the demand for Pakistan. Soon, the sub-continent is partitioned and...

ڈاکٹر شلر آپ کو دکھاتا ہے کہ ایک مثبت خود کی تصویر کیسے بنائی جائے، چاہے آپ کا مسئلہ کچھ بھی ہو۔ چاہے وہ بے روزگاری ہو، خراب صحت، تنہائی،...

PAKISTAN'S ARMY IN YEARS OF TURMOIL

اصلی وارن بفیٹ نے اس راز سے پردہ اٹھایا کہ کس طرح وارن بفیٹ نے برکشائر ہیتھ وے کو حیران کن کامیابی تک پہنچایا۔ اپنے اصل نظم و نسق اور...

This book springs from an in-depth review of a multi-donor investment in an irrigation and drainage scheme. An economist, an anthropologist, a sociologist, a gender specialist and an irrigation specialist...