As'salam-o-alaikum, here i am posting some new (some old also included) links, solely intended to narrow down the subject to pakistan only. Hope you will like it.

ALLAH nighaban



(1) Shahid Javed Burki "Historical Dictionary of Pakistan"
The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | 2006-10-28 | ISBN: 0810856018 | 648 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB

At what point should one begin Pakistan's history? Should one start with August 14, 1947 when Lord Louis Mountbatten administered the oath of office to Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's first Governor General? If we start with August 14 as Pakistan's birthday, it is impossible to tell Pakistan's full story. To really understand the circumstances that resulted in the birth of Pakistan, one has to go much farther back in history. Beyond Jinnah's call for separate states in 1940, and even beyond the elections of 1937, all the way back to the eighth century when Islam first arrived on the Indian sub-continent. This expanded and updated edition provides concise, accurate, dictionary-style entries on the religious, social, political, economic, and cultural events and leaders that contributed to the founding of the Muslim state. Dr. Burki provides a helpful introduction to aid with historical context. The handy chronology and comprehensive bibliography further augment the usefulness of this volume, making it a helpful guide for the new student of Pakistan and quick ready-reference for the experienced scholar. Praise for the first edition: "...a very useful bibliography... [The introduction]...is a finely crafted essay...provides the user with an insider's view of the emergence of a new nation...a very authoritative and readable source. Recommended for all levels of college and university reference collections."



(2) Victoria Schofield - Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan And the Unending War
Diane Pub | 2003 | ISBN: 075679109X | Pages: 297 | PDF | 7.41 MB

Located on the borders of China, Central Asia, India, and Pakistan, Kashmir has now confirmed its status as a battleground for two of the world's newest nuclear powers, India and Pakistan. In this new edition, Victoria Schofield now traces the origins of the state in the nineteenth century and the controversial 'sale' by the British of the predominantly Muslim valley to a Hindu Maharaja. In this widely acclaimed book, she explains the serious issues that divide India and Pakistan and assesses the military positions of both states as their troops mass on both sides of the border. Schofield's new edition provides complete up-to-date coverage and analysis of the current crisis.


(3) Samuel Willard Crompton “Pakistan (Modern World Nations)"Chelsea House Publications | 2002-07 | ISBN: 0791070980 | 112 pages | PDF | 3,7 MB

The comprehensive and practical analytical framework presented here by Pakistani scholars and World Bank staff is a useful tool for decisiormnakers in designing and implementing policy reforms. The policy lessons outlined in this volume, which are relevant for many developing countries, have been widely disseminated by WBI in its seminars and courses on rural development.


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(4) Ayesha Siddiqa-Agha, "Pakistan's Arms Procurement and Military Build-Up 1979-99: In Search of a Policy"
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 0333731727 | edition: 2001 | PDF | 249 Pages | 2,3 Mb

This book presents a fundamental departure in presenting an analysis of the internal dynamics of defense management and decision-making in Pakistan--a new nuclear weapon state. This is an in-depth study of Pakistan's security link with its arms suppliers and defense industrial capacity, and the influence of Pakistan's army on conventional and unconventional defense decisions. The analysis is backed with numerous case studies of defense decisions carried out from 1979-99.


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(5) The Armed Forces of Pakistan (Armed Forces of Asia) By Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema
Publisher Roundhouse Publishing | ISBN: 1865081191 | edition 2003 | PDF | 240 pages | 1,66 Mb

To the north a seemingly endless civil war in Afghanistan fuelled by arms from Russia and the USA. To the west, a fundamentalist Islamic region in Iran, with links to international terrorism. To the north-east, a secessionist guerilla war in Kashmir. To the east, India, with which Pakistan has fought two wars in 40 years. In these volatile circumstances, Pakistan's armed forces continue to play an important role both internally and externally. Since their creation out of the communal violence of partition at the end of World War II, the armed forces of Pakistan have played a central role in the Pakistani state, periodically usurping the civil authority and ruling in its own right. This book describes the nature of Pakistan's defence capabilities and the forces which will shape them in the 21st century. It surveys the forces locked in conflict over the nuclear option and examines the three internal pressures Pakistan continues to face: militarization, secularization and Islamic fundamentalism. The book assesses the role of the armed forces in the context of defence policy and strategy, and its social and political role. It also provides a comprehensive description of the nature of the air, naval and ground forces, as well as an account of each of their capabilities and ambitions. An appendix provides a precise order of battle.


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(6) Pakistan: At the Crosscurrent of History (One World) By Lawrence Ziring
Publisher: Oneworld Publications 2004 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1851683275 | PDF | 2.3 MB

In this probing book, a leading defense expert gives the inside story of Pakistan, telling of a country torn apart by catastrophic civil wars, dominated by the bullish military dictatorship of General Musarraf and struggling against the growth of extremist Islam.

Born from a vision of political idealism, caught up in turmoil from its first day of independence, this is the tale of one nation's journey from the margins of history to the center of the world stage. Forced into the spotlight by the international fight against terror, Pakistan has become a global player and an acknowledged nuclear power; today, struggling to balance Western influences with internal demands, it stands poised at the very crosscurrent of history.

Lawrence Ziring, political scientist and long-time observer of the Pakistan scene, combines all the salient facts with astute analysis to track Pakistan's history from the pre-Partition era, through Independence in 1947, to its changing role in the post-9/11 world. Guiding us through three wars, and numerous periods of political instability and martial law, he offers a penetrating analysis of the conflicts between tradition and modernity, religion and secularity, which continue both to burden this Muslim country and to shape its destiny.


(7) J. N. Dixit, India-Pakistan in War and Peace
Routledge | Pages: 501 | 2002 | ISBN: 0415304725 | PDF | 2.45 Mb

As the Kashmir dispute brings India and Pakistan ominously close to nuclear war this book provides a compelling account of the history and politics of these two great South Asian rivals. Like the Israel-Palestine struggle, the Indian-Pakistan rivalry is a legacy of history. The two countries went to war within months of becoming independent and, over the following half-century, they have fought three other wars and clashed at the United Nations and every other global forum. It is a complex conflict, over religion and territory with two diametrically opposed views of nationhood and national imagination. J.N. Dixit, former foreign secretary of India, and one of the world's leading authorities on the region, has written a balanced and very readable account of the most tempestuous and potentially dangerous flashpoint in international politics.



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(8) Pakistan - Eye of the Storm
Publisher: Yale University Press | ISBN: 0300101473 | edition 2003 | PDF | 365 pages | 1,89 mb

Pakistan-with its political instability, vociferous Islamic community, pressing economic and social problems, access to nuclear weapons, and proximity to Afghanistan-stands at the very center of global attention. Can General Musharraf, Pakistan's military ruler, control the forces that helped create the Taliban in Afghanistan? In this fascinating book, journalist Owen Bennett Jones looks at Pakistan's turbulent past, recounts its recent history, and assesses its future options. A new introduction brings the account fully up to date.


(9)Zahid Hussain, “Frontline Pakistan”
I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd | 2007 | ISBN: 1845112660 | 272 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

As Pakistan teeters on the brink of the abyss, Zahid Hussain draws on his unparallelled access and sources amongst the intelligence services, the jiahdi networks, and those surrounding President Musharraf to find out what's going on behind the scenes in this turbulent country, on whose fate the security of the whole world hangs. Does the country's fearsome intelligence agency, the ISI know where Bin Laden is? Are they helping the Taliban? Why didn't Musharraf stamp out radicalism as he promised? Did he mean it, when he pledged his support to America? Does he have the strength to hang on to power? What is his real relationship with Benazir Bhutto? Hussain takes us on a journey from the mountain passes of Waziristan to the officers mess tables in Rawalpindi to the sectarian madrassas of the Punjab to paint an unforgettable portrait of a country in crisis.