The history of Pakistan from 2016 - 2017. Seventh book in the series.

The history of Pakistan from 2015 - 2016. Sixth book in the series.

Karachi, a mega city of about 25 million now, has been burning since two decades in spreading blaze of target killings, extortion, organised robberies, kidnapping for ransom, sectarian blasts and massive corruption by ruling political regimes. Later, the city became Taliban’s refuge and a battleground for neighbouring Muslim countries. Since 25 years, nothing has been written about Karachi’s affairs because of dreadful apprehensions, horror and fears of being eliminated. First time, the two volumes [c 815 pages] of that city’s complete diary has been compiled to keep the history intact.

In August 2021, America quits Afghanistan. After wasteful investment of two decades and billions of dollars – what results – humiliation and dishonour coupled with losing super-power ranking.

'Pakistan' tells the fascinating history of the country as seen through the eyes of one of its most famous sons, Imran Khan.

Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.

The history of Pakistan from 2011 - 2013. First book in the series.