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Nadeem Farooq Paracha’s latest book may not tread new ground for those who follow his column, but will provide a different...

These books stayed in my mind when the dust of new releases had settled.

Former The Guardian correspondent Samira Shackle presents a compelling story about Karachi through the eyes of five extraor...

A writer profiles Karachi’s everyday citizens, highlighting their fears and hopes The past year has not been kind to Pakistan. The pandemic has crippled the country, leaving limited capacity to battle another contagion: bad PR. 2019 saw the launch of Sanam Maher’s A Woman Like Her and in 2020 we read Declan Walsh’s The Nine Lives of Pakistan. British freelance writer Samira Shackle’s newly released Karachi Vice: Life and Death in a Contested City completes a carnage trilogy, revealing the “sectarian and ethnic resentment mingling with politics and organized crime,” as she write...

Sarmila Bose,  (Hurst, 2011). The creation of Bangladesh was a missed opportunity for India to reverse the British partition of Bengal. It was an error of judgement due to India’s tendency to think in terms of how to damage Pakistan, rather than what might benefit India.  At the end of the 1971 war, Pakistan was in disarray and the Indian army was in control of the territory of East Pakistan. Had Indira Gandhi annexed it as the new state of East Bengal within the Union of India and offered Sheikh Mujib the chief ministership, evidence suggests he would have accepted. He had few options. I...