Uniquely representing all sides in the conflict over Kashmir, this innovative new book provides a forum for discussion not only of existing proposals for ending the conflict, but also of...

In this beautifully written and fully detailed study, J. Royal Roseberry makes a major contribution to understanding the interaction of the agents of the British Raj and local leadership and...

The three essays in this volume explore the changing parameters of struggles over gender in Pakistan. In the process, the author attempts to theoretically traverse the boundaries between public and...

`A fantastic achievement, having successfully dealt with an extremely complicated issue. [...] accessible both to a reader with some general interest in Afghanistan and is equally of immense aid for...

FAIZ AHMED FAIZ (1911-1984), poet, teacher, editor, freedom- fighter, dramatist, critic, progressive writer and Lenin Peace Prize recipient, was the author of eight collections of poems in Urdu and is...

The people of Afghanistan stand at a crossroads, with resistance to the Soviet occupation entering its eighth year. The question of survival must be weighed against the difficult political choices...

A learned and intricate study of human spirituality, this work covers a vast panorama of human thought, aspiration and experience, and brings forth a fresh, unorthodox, original, and unbiased view...

The resurgence and revitalisation of Muslim culture have created a growing interest in the study of Muslim names. Throughout the world Muslims share similar names, be they in the Middle...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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 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...

Issues related to nuclear non-proliferation in South Asia arising from the nuclear programmes and ambitions of India and Pakistan have long been the subject of emotive policy debate and intense...

In this book, murder is viewed in the cultural specificity of Pakistan. The author shows how several peculiar factors - traditional safeguarding of the family relational system, land, historic notions...

Badr-ud-Din Tyabji's first volume of memoirs is a personal record encompassing half a century of India's recent history. The momentous changes this period witnessed are chronicled by Tyabji from a...

Three passions dominated Maulana Azad's life: love of learning, Hindu-Muslim unity and freedom of India. This comprehensive and sensitive study, using extensive source material offers, for the first time, a...

The author develops a broad strategy for the development of the private sector on the basis of an analytical review of the broad range of constraints and opportunities confronting the...

This book examines the dynamics of the Islamic revivalist movements in the contemporary period. The manifestation of the phenomenon is diverse and varies considerably across a broad spectrum of behaviour....

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels is one of those great classics of English literature that has been read, re-read and enjoyed by children all over the world. As a brilliant mockery...

Since statistical data on national development representing ethnic breakdowns for Pakistan are unavailable, this study utilized the national Social Studies curriculum as an analytical instrument, for its proportionate ethnic representation,...

Since the demise of Soviet power, the newly independent republics are redefining their identities and their relations with the world at large. In Central Asia, which lies at the crossroads...

This book follows a generally linear historical form. It starts with an account of the country and its people, and then describes and analyses its history, with particular reference to...

This book explores the nature of the friction between the Muslim world and the West, looking at legitimate perceptions and grievances on both sides. Arguing that "Islam versus the West"...

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,...

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...

In "India, Pakistan, and the United States", Dr Shirin Tahir-Kheli points out that the end of the Cold War and the rise of a new generation of Indians and Pakistanis...

Sindhi, like Punjabi, Urdu and Bengali, is one of the languages of the sub-continent which goes back to the earliest recorded evidence of civilisation. According to Grierson, it can be...

This book gives a concise history and present status of the Dewey Decimal Classification which, since its birth in America more than a century ago, has spread to 135 countries....

Most people have a vague idea that in the months leading to the 1971 breakup of Pakistan and during the savage military action in East Pakistan all the major world...

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...

Alice's wonderland is a curious and unbelievable place where she shrinks to three inches and then suddenly grows to become a giant. She has tea with March Hare and Mad...

The case of Pakistan provides a stiking example of a new state that appeared to have achieved a high degree of national integration especially since political awareness had been focussed...

It takes centuries for the music of a country or a people to acquire its distinctive features. It evolves and grows with new technological skills, a wider range of mental...

The invention of the DDC has played a vital role in giving a direction and shape to the modern librarianship. It is not for nothing that Melvil Dewey is given...

This book aims to introduce students tO the process of assigning and especially synthesising class numbers by the 20th edition of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC). The chapters and the...