What are the 'Must Read' books about Pakistan?

[Karla M]

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!!

 

[Mugwop]

Mein Aur Mera Pakistan is a good book

 

[SarthakGanguly]

@MBI Munshi can help. He is the resident author in PDF.

 

[VelocuR]

 

[Karla M]

Thanksss! I'll take a look at them!!

Mein Aur Mera Pakistan is a good book

thankss... is it the one by Imran Khan?

 

[TejasMk3]

Edit: I see you already have the christine fair book.

 

[Karla M]

Edit: I see you already have the christine fair book.

hehehe thankss.... it's a nice book ...also she has a paper with Shuja Nawaz... very interesting!
thanks for sharing

 

[MastanKhan]

Freedom at midnight,

 

[Karla M]

Freedom at midnight,

thanks!

by Larry Collins?

what about
Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, then Army, and America's War Terror by Hassan Abbas… ?

anyone heard about this author?

 

[Arya Desa]

Vedas, especially the Rig Veda.

 

[fatman17]

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!!

this is enough to know about recent events in PK. nice collection.

 

[VelocuR]

hehehe thankss.... it's a nice book ...also she has a paper with Shuja Nawaz... very interesting!
thanks for sharing

I don't want you to read propaganda like Christine Fair's negative books and rubbish claims.

 

[TejasMk3]

hehehe thankss.... it's a nice book ...also she has a paper with Shuja Nawaz... very interesting!
thanks for sharing

Okay I have one more for you!
Specifically WRT Pakistan-America relationship

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding: Husain Haqqani: 9781610393171: Amazon.com: Books

The author Hussain Haqqani is an ex-diplomat (Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S), now lives in the U.S

 

[Armstrong]

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

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.

 

[Karla M]

Okay I have one more for you!
Specifically WRT Pakistan-America relationship

Magnificent Delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding: Husain Haqqani: 9781610393171: Amazon.com: Books

The author Hussain Haqqani is an ex-diplomat (Pakistan's ambassador to the U.S), now lives in the U.S

Thanks... is this the same author than Military, State and Society in Pakistan??? he seems interesting thanks a lot!

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.

hahaha, ok i get it...and especially James Farwell...
would it be the same about this book "The Idea of Pakistan" by Stephen Cohen?

thank you! i never saw this author!! so i am going to check it out....

I don't want you to read propaganda like Christine Fair's negative books and rubbish claims.

I know... I kind of read everything i am able to ... I still have to learn to identify what is biased and what is more objective...

this is enough to know about recent events in PK. nice collection.

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