{"title":"VBL AD June 2026 - Current Affairs Pakistan","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"pakistan-5","title":"PAKISTAN","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"van-product-description\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoodbhoy's richly textured inquiry into Pakistan's evolution from early days onward brings out reality, myth, hope. With penetrating insight and scrupulous care, he explores and dismantles multiple poisonous fallacies. But this is no Jeremiad. The cures, he shows, exist as do hopes for a much brighter future.'\nNoam Chomsky, Professor of Linguistics (Emeritus), Massachusetts Institute of Technology\n\n'A hard-hitting and truth-seeking analysis of how Pakistan came to be what it is today with the conclusion, first, that the very idea of Pakistan must be rethought, and second, suggestions as to how this might be done.'\n\nFrancis Robinson, Professor of the History of South Asia, University of London\n\n'The effort which has gone into writing this book can only be called monumental. It is highly recommended to all who are interested in truthful history and is especially recommended to those who disagree with the author if only to promote rational, intellectual debate on the subject of Pakistan's origins and identity.'\n\nTariq Rahman,? Linguist, Humboldt Laureate, Distinguished National Professor of Social Sciences, HEC (Pakistan)\n\n'Agree with it or not, Pervez Hoodbhoy's book demands to be read. It provides the most thorough reversal of existing narratives about Pakistan's origins. A bracing and counter-intuitive interpretation of nationalist history.'\n\nFaisal Devji, Professor of Indian History, University of Oxford\n\n'In a bold sweep, Pervez Hoodbhoy seeks to analyze Pakistan's nationhood, its origins, its present, and its future, as also figures critical to the country's formation. The result is a clinical and candid book, yet one that is also constructive and very readable.'\n\nRajmohan Gandhi, author, biographer, peace activist, IIT Gandhinagar\n\n'The book unabashedly lays bare facts of history that in the past were only just whispered. A brave expose and, equally, a desire for a different Pakistan that few dare talk about.'\n\nAyesha Siddiqa, author of Military Inc. ' Inside Pakistan's Military Economy.\n\n'As a scientist, Hoodbhoy weighs evidence as he fearlessly digs into explaining and resolving crucial issues that present-day Pakistanis face. His scholarship is meticulous and wide-ranging, laying a foundation for an extraordinarily insightful exploration of Pakistan's history and its social, cultural, and political dynamics extending into the present day. Withal, he reaches out to the reader with straightforward and clear questions, inviting informed revision of the conventional understanding of Pakistan.'\n\nPhilip K. 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Focusing on the first Kashmir war (1947'48), the wars of 1965 and 1971, and the 1999 Kargil war, it analyses the elite decision-making, which leads to these conflicts and tries to understand how Pakistan got involved in the first place. The author applies the 'gambling model' to provide insights into the dysfunctional world view, risk-taking behaviour, and other behavioural patterns of the decision makers, which precipitate these wars and highlight their effects on India'Pakistan relations for the future. The book also brings to the fore the experience of widows, children, common soldiers, displaced civilians, and villagers living near borders, in the form of interviews, to understand the subaltern perspective.\u0026lt;\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\u0026gt;A nuanced and accessible military history of Pakistan, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of military history, defence and strategic studies, international relations, political studies, war and conflict studies, and South Asian studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42613277032484,"sku":"9789697834440","price":1795.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9789697834440-1.jpg?v=1757659615"},{"product_id":"the-battle-for-pakistan","title":"THE BATTLE FOR PAKISTAN","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"van-product-description\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Battle for Pakistan showcases a marriage of convenience between unequal partners. The relationship between Pakistan and the United States since the early 1950s has been nothing less than a whiplash-inducing rollercoaster ride. Today, surrounded by hostile neighbours, with Afghanistan increasingly under Indian influence, Pakistan does not wish to break ties with the US. Nor does it want to become a vassal of China and get caught in the vice of a US-China rivalry, or the Arab-Iran conflict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInternally, massive economic and demographic challenges as well as the existential threat of armed militancy pose huge obstacles to Pakistan's development and growth. Could its short-run political miscalculations in the Obama years prove too costly? Can the Trump administration help salvage this relationship?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBased on extensive travel in the region, frequent policy interactions and many on-the-record interviews with key leaders, The Battle for Pakistan untangles the complex US relationship in the past decade. Shuja Nawaz identifies the path forward, provided US and Pakistani leaders make the right choices for the longer term.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42613277261860,"sku":"9789698729097","price":2695.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/WhatsAppImage2026-01-15at5.04.40PM.jpg?v=1768539001"},{"product_id":"pakistan-search-for-stability","title":"PAKISTAN: SEARCH FOR STABILITY","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"van-product-description\"\u003e\u003cp\u003ePakistan faces a number of critical challenges, a ‘polycrisis’ that comprises multiple crises – political, constitutional, economic, security, geo-political, demographic, and ecological. These systemic challenges are the cumulative consequence of decades of poor governance and squandered opportunities whose convergence creates a formidable, overall challenge.\n\nDr Maleeha Lodhi, the country’s well-known diplomat, political scientist, and journalist holds that the country’s leaders, both civilian and military, have failed to take a long view and outline a vision for the country. They have spent much of the time in crisis management or power-preservation modes, postponing meaningful reform and looking for short term, expedient ‘solutions’ to Pakistan’s problems. The consequences of those sins of omission and commission in numerous but interconnected areas have now come together to create a moment of truth for the country.\n\nThis volume is a compilation of nineteen essays by Pakistan’s distinguished experts offering analyses of these challenges and proposing solutions. These essays are essential reading for those seeking to understand Pakistan’s present-day immediacies and trends into the future.\n\nISBN: 9780199062041\nAUTHOR: Maleeha Lodhi\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42613502148644,"sku":"9780199062041","price":1485.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9780199062041-f.jpg?v=1757663724"},{"product_id":"pakistan-partition-politics-and-society","title":"PAKISTAN: PARTITION, POLITICS AND SOCIETY","description":"","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42613632040996,"sku":"9789694026831","price":2620.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9789694026831-f.jpg?v=1757665110"},{"product_id":"political-conflict-in-pakistan","title":"POLITICAL CONFLICT IN PAKISTAN","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book is a major reinterpretation of Pakistani politics. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country''s political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem analyses the millennium-long conflict between Hindus and Muslims as separate nations but intermingled faiths, and the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh renaissances that created a twentieth-century clash of communities and led to partition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePolitical Conflict in Pakistan\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e addresses multiple clashes: between the high culture as a mission to transform society, and the low culture of the land and the people; between those committed to the establishment''s institutional constitutional framework and those seeking to dismantle the ''colonial'' state; between the corrupt and those seeking to hold them to account; between the political class and the middle class; and between civil and military power. Waseem exposes how the ruling elite centralised power through the militarisation and judicialisation of politics, rendering the federalist arrangement an empty shell and grossly alienating the provinces. He sets all this within the contexts of education and media as breeders of conflict, the difficulties of establishing an anti-terrorist regime, and the state''s pragmatic attempts at conflict resolution, under pressure from minorities. This is a wide-ranging account of a country of contestations.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vanguard Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43078615859236,"sku":null,"price":4675.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0739\/4823\/3764\/files\/9781805264446.webp?v=1766128278"},{"product_id":"100","title":"100","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003ePakistan does not suffer from a lack of resources. It suffers from a lack of courage to confront itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003e100 is not a book of comfort. It is a manifesto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003eWithin these pages are one hundred uncompromising interventions Pakistan must make before it turns one hundred across its economy, social fabric, institutions, and most critically, its way of thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e100 is written for those who believe Pakistan can become more than a third-world state not through miracles or saviors, but through a mass awakening of intellect, character, and civic seriousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003eThis is not a book to admire. It is a book to answer. 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