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...

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 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...

RELIGIOUS EXTREMISM, MISOGYNY, TRANSPHOBIA & CLASS APARTHEID IN PAKISTAN

This book provides an extensive overview of Pakistan's response towards terrorism under the General Pervez Musharraf-led military regime from 2001 to 2008. With the changing geo-political environment, the study argues...

ON FUNDAMENTALISMS is the first of three volumes of essays by Sadik al-Azm on the broad theme of secularism, fundamentalism and the meaning of Islam.

The picturesque Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir, for centuries a model of harmony and coexistence, has been ravaged by conflict for sixty years, caught in a tug-of-war between historical...

Using a political economy framework, this book examines issues related to the process of democratization, decentralisation, governance and civil society in Pakistan, in an historical and contemporary context. The book...

TAREEKH-E-ISLAM KA AIK SABAQ AMOUZ SANKHA JISE JALD FARAMOUSH KER DIYA GAYA

Analysing the evolution of Lahore’s social organization, culture and ideologies since Pakistan’s independence in 1947, this book explores how social and cultural changes affect the social economy, spatial structure and...

In the words of Dr Akther Hameed Khan: Idealism I hope that somehow, idealism is reborn… Idealists don't live for their own benefit, but want to serve others. Where you...

Islam: Submission and disobedience is the second of three volumes of essays by Sadik al-azm on the board theme of secularism, fundamentalism and the meaning of Islam.

India Wins Freedom has at last won its own freedom. The full text of this autobiographical narrative was confined, under seal, in the National Library, Calcutta, and in the National...

Water is an important input to irrigated agriculture. In Pakistan unfortunately, it is fast becoming a diminishing resource due to many reasons including global warming. To meet present and future...

Gulf Charities and Islamic Philanthropy in the "Age of Terror" and Beyond is the first book to be published on the charities of Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Gulf, covering...

The object of the following pages must briefly be explained. During a residence of five years in Sindh, the author had frequent opportunity to remark, and cause to regret, the...

This book gives a detailed account of the jurisdiction of the High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan under Article 199 and Article 184(3) respectively of the Constitution of Pakistan....

EMPTY BELLIES, BROKEN DREAMS In Pakistan, the face of food insecurity is an ugly one: Hungry mobs looting bakeries. Impoverished women and children trampled to death while scrambling for rice...

His selected newspaper columns will make it plain that open mindedness coupled with a deep understanding of Pakistani history was all Minoo needed to soar above many of his compatriots...

Given resumed Taliban power and attacks, Afghanistan must tackle a host of serious problems before it can emerge as a confident, independent nation. Security in this battered state continues to...

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

PAKISTAN, AMERICA GALAT FEHMION KI TARIKH

Agriculture in Pakistan has come a long way since 1947. Much has changed but it remains a dominant sector of the national economy. This book contains a critical analysis of...

Fleeing Germany in 1933 and Italy in 1937, two 27-year-old Jewish physicians seek a new future in British India. In 1940, now a family of four, they are arrested and...

A hundred years ago, when Hitler's third reich was little more than a nebulous concept of nationhood based qn racial inequality and exclusion, perhaps no one might have thought that...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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....

Author, cultural critic and historian nadeem farooq paracha details the history of muslim modernism - a 19th century idea which further evolved in the the early 20th century and inspired...

Chomsky's classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control has been updated and expanded into a two-section book, following the acclaimed format of his anti-war bestseller, 9-11(also available by Natraj). This...

A. Hameed has always had the remarkable gift of bringing the past to life. His reminiscences of Lahore as it was in the early years of independence and through the...

Kalabagh Dam: Sifting Fact from Fiction provides a comprehensive account of events and perceptions related to Pakistan's most controversial issue. Developed by WAPDA as an engineering project related to water...

JINNAH: HIQAYAT AUR HAQEEQAT offers an insightful exploration into the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This expert account delves beyond popular narratives to present a balanced perspective, uncovering...

A definitive work on Al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, including extensive interviews with Al Qaeda members: field research in Al Qaeda-supported conflict zones around...

During last decade's upsurge in the fortunes of populist politics in numerous countries, Imran Khan emerged as its central figure in Pakistan. Globally, Khan never became as prominent in this...

Political satire is a staple of democracy. And this is satire at its brilliant best witty, pithy and hilarious. Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan's fictional diary pushes the boundaries of...

In May 2018, a book was published that set off a perfect storm in the intelligence circles in the subcontinent, and made people in the spy community sit up around...

This book "does not claim to be a history of Pakistan-. Its less ambitious format is defined as being "a part of that history namely- the ideological and geographical changes...

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 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 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...

Visits to High Tartary, Yarkand and Kashgar, written over a century ago, tells the story of a British tea-planter, Robert Shaw, who found himself caught up in the Great Game....

Colonel HC. Wylly serving the British Regiment in the 1890s found hardly any information of the country immediately beyond the North-West border. In this book, he deals in detail with...

A work of great value, not merely on account of its splendid illustrations, but for the value of material it contains. This study by an adventurous traveller, an authentic and...

Arminius Vambery in early youth developed an interest in the languages of Europe and Asia, and later he got involved with the reciprocal relations of languages. He went to Constantinople,...

Captain Fred Burnaby, Royal Horse Guards, analyses the political and military happenings of the Central Asia during the mid 1800s. He evaluates the military strength of Russia, and says it...

Hungerford believes a great change had been effected in the late 19th Century, in the measure of information about regions of farther India in the North West. He claims that...

The author has given a popular account of the principal pioneering exploits in the region lying between the Caspian and India. In his writings on Central Asia, he tries to...

This travel account by a British Counsul-General, was written with a first-hand knowledge of the people, their art, folklore, and customs. Having posted at Kashgar in Chinese Turkistan during the...

Although by 1892, SS Thorburn had served for sixteen years in trans-Indus and for seven years in Indus districts west of Lahore, he had hardly any information of the neighbours....

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...

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

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The book contains a collection of essays covering a wide range of issues pertaining to the dreadful threat of terrorism faced by Pakistan. The essays throw light on the strands...

A few weeks after India detonated a thermonuclear device in 1998, Arundhati Roy wrote 'The End of Imagination'. The essay attracted worldwide attention as the voice of a brilliant Indian...

IS ISLAM SECULARIZABLE? Is the third and final volume of essays by Sadik al-Azm on the broad theme of secularism, fundamentalism and the meaning of Islam.

AIK GHAIR FAL ATOMI TAQAAT KO JOHARI TABDELI KI ZAROORAT

Over the years I have discussed Gandhi with many Americans, both formally and informally... What continues to irk me is the amount of Gandhi 'propaganda material' that has flooded our...

This edited translation of Syed Nur Ahmad's landmark study 'Martial Law-se Martial Law-tak' provides the most comprehensive study in English or Urdu of the politics of the Punjab. Drawing on...

Just in time for the elections, Arundhati Roy offers us this lucid briefing on what the Bush administration really means when it talks about compassionate conservativism and the war on...

The Shape of the Beast is our world laid bare, with great courage, passion and eloquence, by a mind that has engaged unhesitatingly with its changing realities, often anticipating the...

Whether discussing her childhood or the problems of translation in a multilingual society, Roy and Barsamian, the producer and host of Alternative Radio, engage in a lively and accessible manner....

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto came from a wealth family of feudal landowners in Sind. Although west-ernized by education in the United States and in England, he became the champion of the...

SIYASSI SAWAN UMARI

creative writing in the English language has been a part of the literary tradition of most former British colonies in Africa, the West Indies and South Asia for the last...

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

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 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...

Essays of Lord Macaulay on Robert Clive and Warren Hastings are perhaps known to every English household; but they refer to more episodes in the history, and are wanting in...

Millions of children in Pakistan live short and painful lives, suffering the worst forms of exploitation and neglect. Such injustice is often explained away as a direct result of the...

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,...

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...

Captain D'Auvergne, the author of this delightful book of short stories, has spent the greater part of along and adventurous life among those tribes of the North where daring, courage...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The five years between 2001 and 2006 were momentous years in the history of Pakistan, the United States and the Greater Middle East. This book chronicles some of the major...

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