But I kind of get the feeling that I am missing so much that I dont even know about ....
or perhaps I am just getting obsessed
The next step is to visit Pakistan & see our country & our people yourself !
You'd be very surprised to find out that the Pakistan you read in these books written by self-proclaimed experts or the way the media paints us is markedly different than who we really are !
... but first need to finish thesis and get my degree 
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you are living at the other end of the world...how come you were convinced to write a thesis on the military of pakistan ?Hello everyone!
Could you help me telling me what are the MUST READ about Pakistan?
Maybe some of you still never saw me here, but Im a mexican girl doing a thesis about Military in Pakistan and its regional and international implications... basically, it is shaped like this:
chapter 1: backgrounds
chapter 2: provinces
chapter 3: military in Pakistan
chapter 4: International Relations of Pakistan
Since there are no books here, I am soon to do my Amazon book shopping...
I already have a few:
-Nawaz, Shuja. Crossed Swords ((this one I got to know here!))
-Siddiqa, Ayesha. Military Inc.
-Jalal, Ayesha. The State of Martial Rule.
-Noor-ul-Haq. Making of Pakistan: the political and military perspective.
-Rashid, Ahmed. Descent into chaos... and Pakistan on the Brick.
-Fair, Christine. Fighting to the end.
-Lieven, Anatol. Pakistan a Hard Country.
-Farwell, James. The Pakistan Cauldron.
-Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars
-Musharraf, P. In the Line of Fire
-Tariq Ali. The Duel, Pakistan on the flight path of American power.
and even I have Malala's book
Which are the important ones that i am missing?? I hope you could help me!!
hehehe thankss.... it's a nice book ...also she has a paper with Shuja Nawaz... very interesting!
thanks for sharing
its rea
you are living at the other end of the world...how come you were convinced to write a thesis on the military of pakistan ?
i would not recommend you reading the malala book though..she doesn't even know english plus she is just a very young girl who is controlled by the western media (some propaganda you don't know)..and her book was written by a british journalist.
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even though I knew it would be all propaganda but I had to have it 
Don't waste your money on her book hermosa.
later on I hope I will be able to recognize all the crappy ones
... going to check on the rest of books' contents ... thanks again No thats a different Author(Hasan Askari Rizvi).
ooh I found a review on Amazon and seems very interesting... is this really the table of contents?
Introduction -- Maleeha Lodhi
The Past as Present -- Ayesha Jalal
Why Jinnah Matters -- Akbar Ahmed
Why Pakistan Will Survive -- Mohsin Hamid
Beyond the Crisis State -- Maleeha Lodhi
Army and Politics -- Shuja Nawaz
Praetorians and the People -- Saeed Shafqat
Ideologically Adrift -- Ziad Haider
Battling Militancy -- Zahid Hussain
Retooling Institutions -- Ishrat Husain
An economic crisis state? -- Meekal Ahmed
Boosting Competitiveness -- Muddassar Mazhar Malik
Turning Energy Around -- Ziad Alahdad
Education as a Strategic Imperative -- Shanza Khan and Moeed Yusuf
Pakistan as a Nuclear State -- Feroz Hassan Khan
Reversing Strategic "Shrinkage" -- Munir Akram
The Afghan Conundrum -- Ahmed Rashid
The India Factor -- Syed Rifaat Hussain
Concluding Note -- Maleeha Lodhi
is it this? Completely worth it, right?
Thanksss... i have three of your list
Seal team six is more abt seal team exploits than Pakistan...ooh I found a review on Amazon and seems very interesting... is this really the table of contents?
Introduction -- Maleeha Lodhi
The Past as Present -- Ayesha Jalal
Why Jinnah Matters -- Akbar Ahmed
Why Pakistan Will Survive -- Mohsin Hamid
Beyond the Crisis State -- Maleeha Lodhi
Army and Politics -- Shuja Nawaz
Praetorians and the People -- Saeed Shafqat
Ideologically Adrift -- Ziad Haider
Battling Militancy -- Zahid Hussain
Retooling Institutions -- Ishrat Husain
An economic crisis state? -- Meekal Ahmed
Boosting Competitiveness -- Muddassar Mazhar Malik
Turning Energy Around -- Ziad Alahdad
Education as a Strategic Imperative -- Shanza Khan and Moeed Yusuf
Pakistan as a Nuclear State -- Feroz Hassan Khan
Reversing Strategic "Shrinkage" -- Munir Akram
The Afghan Conundrum -- Ahmed Rashid
The India Factor -- Syed Rifaat Hussain
Concluding Note -- Maleeha Lodhi
is it this? Completely worth it, right?
Thanksss... i have three of your list
An American national .. Whom was made our ambassador to USA ... Who is accused of memogate, issuing thousands of visas to CIA etc n so on ... I've read his book magnificent delusions ... It's very delusional...
Hello everyone!
Could you help me telling me what are the MUST READ about Pakistan?
Maybe some of you still never saw me here, but Im a mexican girl doing a thesis about Military in Pakistan and its regional and international implications... basically, it is shaped like this:
chapter 1: backgrounds
chapter 2: provinces
chapter 3: military in Pakistan
chapter 4: International Relations of Pakistan
Since there are no books here, I am soon to do my Amazon book shopping...
I already have a few:
-Nawaz, Shuja. Crossed Swords ((this one I got to know here!))
-Siddiqa, Ayesha. Military Inc.
-Jalal, Ayesha. The State of Martial Rule.
-Noor-ul-Haq. Making of Pakistan: the political and military perspective.
-Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban , Descent into chaos... and Pakistan on the Brick.
-Fair, Christine. Fighting to the end.
-Lieven, Anatol. Pakistan a Hard Country.
-Farwell, James. The Pakistan Cauldron.
-Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars
-Musharraf, P. In the Line of Fire
-Wolpert, Stanley. India and Pakistan, Continued Conflict or cooperation?
-Tariq Ali. The Duel, Pakistan on the flight path of American power.
and even I have Malala's book
Which are the important ones that i am missing?? I hope you could help me!!
Reading Christine Fair, Ahmed Rashid, Ayesha Siddiqa, James Farwell or even Shuja Nawaz on Pakistan is like reading a book on Mexican Illegal Immigration into the United States by some Redneck Texan !
Try reading Ambassador Akbar S Ahmed's 'The Thistle and the Drone: How America’s War on Terror Became a Global War on Tribal Islam' , 'Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin', 'Resistance and Control in Pakistan' , 'Pakistan: The Social Sciences' Perspective', 'Religion and Politics in Muslim Society: Order and Conflict in Pakistan' - The Author is an anthropologist, historian, ex-civil servant (who served in the Tribal Areas during the Afghan War), a film & documentary maker and a Professor of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington DC.
