Kashmir IN CONFLICT: India, Pakistan and the Unending War

‘A country of such striking natural beauty must, surely, at some period of its history have produced refined and noble people,’ writes Sir Francis Young husband in his History of Kashmir. So indeed, and during my own journey through Kashmir’s contemporary history, I have been privileged to make contact with some of them. In the […]

TREK to Pakistan” is a book penned by Ahmed Saeed in collaboration with K.H Mansoor, published in 2019. Ahmed Saeed, a scholar who earned his master’s degree in political science and history, held significant academic positions, including Chairmanship at the Department of History in Muhammadan Anglo Oriental College, Lahore, and Islamia College, Lahore. Notably, Saeed […]

THIS book deals with Muslim nationalism in Imperial India in its four aspects. The first stage in the growth of a national ism is the evolution of a group into a nation. This is mainly an historical development and occurs on the time-le”\Tel. Chapters I, 2, and 3 describe how the Indian Muslims came to […]

Pakistan is a country of growing, indeed crucial, importance to the United States and to the rest of the world. Three years ago President Barack Obama called me a few days after his inauguration and asked me to chair an urgent interagency review of policy toward Pakistan and Afghanistan. He said that no issue on […]

This is a book that I have lived with most of my life. Born into a military family with a long tradition of soldiering, in an area that has produced warriors and still does, I could not help but learn the ways of the soldiers and follow their activities with a knowing eye. This book […]

Since its hasty and messy creation in 1947, Pakistan has repeatedly been in the world news. It has experienced more turbulent internal events and been involved in more dramatic external ventures than most countries. These include partition, wars, coups, the Afghan resistance, internal dissension, and terrorism, as well as a recent deadly earthquake. Nevertheless, it […]

Pakistan is an easy place for a journalist to work. Most Pakistanis, from policemen to politicians, shopkeepers to soldiers, love to talk about pol itics. Admittedly, the more they know the less willing they are to speak on the record but nevertheless Pakistan remains a very open country. Indeed, Pakistan’s willingness to tolerate the scrutiny […]

MY fascination with Pakistan is not because I belong to a Partition family (though my wife’s family does); it is not even because of being a Punjabi. My interest in Pakistan was first aroused when, as a child, I used to hear stories from my late father, an air force officer, about two Pakistan air […]