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ISBN: 067005836X
Publisher: PENGUIN VIKING
Subtitle:
Author: VIKRAM SETH
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| Weight | 0.7 kg |
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| ISBN | 067005836X |
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| Publication Date | 2005 |
| Pages | 503 |
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This book undertakes a comprehensive and documented study of the role of the military in Pakistan?s society and politics with a view to explaining why and how a professional military can acquire political disposition. The major themes have been studied with reference to three clusters of factors: the dynamics of the civil society and the working of the political institutions and processes, the military establishment and its organizational resources and professional and corporate interests; and the interaction across the functional boundaries between the military and the civil and its implications for the power balance in polity. The weaknesses of the civilian/political institutions and their inability to cope with diverse demands on the political system make it convenient for the senior commanders to expand their role and even assume power. However, military intervention is not necessarily and enduring remedy but it is a part of the overall problem of weak civilian institutions and political decay.
ISBN: 9789693511482
Publisher: SANG-E-MEEL PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle:
Author: HASAN ASKARI RIZVI
ISBN: 9789699368912
Publisher: UMT PRESS
Subtitle:
Author: DR. ABDUL HAMEED JASIM AL-BALALI
A wonderful addition to a number of books that can be found on Lahore, this volume uses numerous photographs and illustrations to show the changes that Lahore has gone through over the years. The book shall be an important addition to anyone s collection on Lahore as it tells the story not just textually but also visually.
ISBN: 9789693514537
Publisher: SANG-E-MEEL PUBLICATION
Subtitle: AN ALBUM
Author: F.S. AIJAZUDDIN
A lot of excellent research exists in the West on the roots of the Indo – European group of languages. But no attempt has been made in Urdu and Persian to compile etymologies. However, Sanskrit dictionaries, like Arabic ones, are based on roots.
Therefore it is possible in some cases to relate Western Indo-European roots to Sanskrit ones. That is what Khaled Ahmed has done in this book.
It is different from other works on etymology in that it enlists words common to Eastern and Western language groups. Barring early philologists like Muller and Jones, no one has so far tried to look at this shared aspect.
This is the unexplored field of discovery and consequent excitement that this book wishes to share with readers. For instance, kana is “reed” in Punjabi; so is it in Greek. In the Western group, Greekkana has given rise to words like “canal”, “channel’, “Canon”, etc. In Skand Gupt, which is the name of an Indian king, skand means “jump” in Persian, skand means the same; in English “ascend”, the root skand means “jump”.
In Harsha, another Indian king, the root hr means “hair” rising under a sensation of joy; in Persianharas, it means “hair” rising under a sensation of fear; in English, “horror” means “hair” rising under a sensation of terror. This is the kind of verbal adventure the book promises.
This book will be of use to specialists in search of more shared words across the East-West divide of the Indo-European languages. It is also guaranteed to excite the common reader of language.
ISBN: 9694023475
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
Subtitle: BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
Author: KHALED AHMED
ISBN: 9789694075488
Publisher: ROYAL BOOK COMPANY
Subtitle: PAKISTAN MEIN FOJI INQALAB KI PEHLI KOSISH
Author: HASAAN ZAHEER
Tariq Rahman’s autobiography can be enjoyed for its accessible and humorous style of writing. It reads like a story of a certain sub-culture of Pakistani society which touches upon lived life in the armed forces and universities of the country. It also touches upon life in other countries and some of the world’s top universities: University of California, Berkeley, Cambridge, Oxford and Heidelberg. It is also of interest for both social and academic historians since they can cross check certain accounts of trends, fashions and attitudes in different walks of life in Pakistan and abroad. It provides valuable insights into the way universities functioned and how research was done in Pakistan between the 1980s till 2024. The author’s way of functioning may not be the typical way in which most academics functioned but still it provides some understanding of the processes of conducting research, publishing and teaching. It is relevant to mention that there is paucity of biographical accounts of academics in Pakistan. This autobiography, therefore, is an attempt to fill in this gap in biographical literature.
ISBN: 9789696403074
Publisher: ILQA PUBLICATIONS
Subtitle: MY LIFE AND TIMES
Author: TARIQ RAHMAN
ISBN: 9789699988769
Publisher: PEACE PUBLICATION
Subtitle: INDIA-PAKISTAN WAR 1965
Author: GENERAL (RETD.) MUHAMMAD MUSA H.J.
ISBN: 9781473695986
Publisher: JOHN MURRAY
Subtitle:
Author: STEPHEN HAWKING
