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POINTS OF ENTRY
₨ 1,695Pakistan is more than the sum of its news-making parts. In these marvellous essays on history, politics and society, cultural critic Nadeem Farooq Paracha upturns various reductive readings of the country by revealing its multi-layered reality. With wit and insight, he investigates past events and their implications for modern-day society.
Thus, one piece explores how and why Mohenjo-daro has been neglected as a historical site, and another examines how Muhammad-bin-Qasim, who briefly invaded Sindh in 713 CE, has come to be lionised as the original founder of Pakistan. There is a story about a Pakistani Jimi Hendrix who plays the guitar like a dream and also one about a medieval emperor who lives on in the swear words of a Punjabi peasant. There are essays on Pakistani pop music, on Afro-Pakistanis and on how Jhuley Lal came to be more than just a folk deity for Sindhi immigrants in India.
ISBN: 9.7897E+12
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: ENCOUNTERS AT THE ORIGIN-SITES OF PAKISTAN
Author: NADEEM FAROOQ PARACHA -
LOVE IN CHAKIWARA AND OTHER MISADVENTURES
₨ 1,195A small Karachi neighbourhood, Chakiwara is humdrum and unspectacular to all appearances. But inside its shops and at the street corners, there is curious business afoot. Chronicling the drama that unfolds daily is Iqbal Hussain Changezi, bakery owner and collector of writers and geniuses. He has his eyes on out-of-work comedian Chakori, apprentice to a Chinese dentist, even as the town?s mostly unsuccessful healer of physical and spiritual maladies prepares to unleash his top-secret invention, the love meter. Muhammad Khalid Akhtar presents a world at once familiar and peculiar but always surprising, his unforgettable characters keeping alive the old ways in a quietly changing Karachi in post-independence Pakistan. Love in Chakiwara and Other Misadventures is a true testament to the wit, sagacity and quiet brilliance of one of the greatest storytellers of his time.
ISBN: 9789698729837
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: MUHAMMAD KHALID AKHTAR -
THE BHABHIS OF LAHORE & OTHER FORBIDDEN TALES OF THE CITY
₨ 1,195We live in a magnificent country, one which Is full of curious beings and sheltered stories that roam in the whispers amongst those beings. I bring to you such stories that make Ama’s and Aba’s eyes pop open – as if they have seen a ghost, which they have not- but these tales, in all their glamour, are not those to be retold, yet I have taken upon myself such a task. Tales of heartbreak, of men who deserved better, of women who loved too dearly, of centuries old dusty mattresses covered with newly purchased silk sheets that bounce to this day, of jinns and their families, and of course – living, breathing tales of you and me and all of us.
ISBN: 9789698729783
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: AYESHA MUZAFFAR -
UNRAVELLING GORDIAN KNOTS
₨ 2,295Unravelling Gordian Knots explores the life and times of Dr. Ishrat Husain, from his earliest days in a refugee camp in newly made Pakistan to his impactful tenures in the civil services, World Bank, State Bank of Pakistan, academia and institutional reform. A sweeping story, the biography touches upon the key moments in Pakistan?s history as told through the eyes of Dr. Ishrat Husain who served as Governor of State Bank and also other notables drawn from Pakistan?s politics and industry and the institutions Dr. Ishrat Husain has contributed to. As a high-ranking civil servant Dr. Ishrat Husain is an eyewitness to such epochal episodes as the separation East Pakistan and while at the World Bank he saw firsthand the economic struggles of African nations and countries formerly in the Soviet Union. Later he led Pakistan?s economic recovery in the 2000s and for past two decades has been involved in reform of the country?s public and private institutions. A savant and celebrated economist, Dr. Ishrat Husain has left his mark on several institutions. Currently Dr. Ishrat Husain is the Minister for Institutional Reform and as Pakistan strives to improve its public institutions and reform its bureaucracy, his timely biography is a must read for policy makers, educationists, economists, corporate managers and anyone interested in learning about a lifetime of service.
ISBN: 9789698729561
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: THE WORKS AND WORLDS OF DR. ISHRAT HUSSAIN
Author: SIBTAIN NAQVI -
KARACHI
₨ 1,695With a population exceeding twenty million, Karachi is one of the world’s largest megacities. It is also one of the most violent.
Since the mid-1980s, Karachi has endured endemic political conflict and criminal violence, which revolve around control of the city and its resources (votes, land and bhatta, protection, money). These struggles for the city have become ethnicised. In the process, Karachi, often referred to as a “Pakistan in miniature”, has become increasingly fragmented, socially as well as territorially.
Despite this chronic state of urban political warfare, Karachi remains the cornerstone of the economy of Pakistan. In contrast to the chaotic and anarchic city portrayed in journalistic accounts, there is indeed order of a kind in the city’s permanent civil war.
ISBN: 9786277626228
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: ORDERED DISORDER AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE CITY
Author: LAURENT GAYER -
TENDER HOOKS
₨ 1,595Aunty Pussy is joyous to have her darling son Jonkers freed from the clutches of his low-class secretary. She tasks Butterfly with finding Jonkers a new wife who must be from good bagground. As baggrounds are all that matter to make a marriage successful.
But who wants to marry poor, plain, die-vorced Jonkers? When Butterfly schemes her way through shaadis, GTs (oho baba, Get Togethers!) and kitty parties, trying to find a suitable girl from the right bagground, she discovers to her dismay that her hapless cousin has his own ideas about his perfect mate. And secretly she may even agree!
Full of wit and wickedness and as clever as its heroine is clueless, Tender Hooks is an explosively funny romp through Pakistani high society.
ISBN: 9786277626181
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: MONI MOHSIN -
A BANK IS BORN
₨ 1,595Through his edifying autobiography, Nadeem Hussain, a path-breaking banker and entrepreneur shares the success stories of two of his major achievements: Tameer Microfinance Bank and Easypaisa. To readers, it serves as both, a memoir and a business case study. A visionary and venturous entrepreneur, Nadeem Hussain is out-and-out innovative. With his incisive business insights, he targets pakistan’s youth – 80 % of the unbanked population, to bring about monumental changes in the world of microfinance and banking.
About the Author: Nadeem Hussain, founder and coach of his latest venture Planet N, aims to catalyse the next wave of tech entrepreneurship in Pakistan. Planet N group of companies focuses on financial inclusion and facilitation of entrepreneurship in Pakistan through technology and has added 40 companies to its portfolio across e-commerce, fintech, edutech, mobile television, retail and renewable energy. However, his vision does not end there. He continues to promote the causes of financial inclusion by unbuilding conventional banking and digitising all 6 verticals to financially include the 80% of the unbanked population.
Nadeem Hussain has had an illustrious banking experience of 30 years working in various senior management positions in major financial centres of the world. However, he has always had a passion for making a difference. He has been globally recognised for his dedication and service to financial inclusion in Pakistan as the founder and ex-CEO of Tameer Bank and Easypaisa that has impacted millions of Pakistanis by extending credit, insurance and mobile banking solutions to a large segment of the unbanked population.
Apart from his corporate career, Nadeem Hussain believes in giving back to the community and has demonstrated this by being heavily involved in pro-bono work.
ISBN: 9786277626082
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: NADEEM HUSSAIN -
BEFORE SHE SLEEPS
₨ 1,195In modern, beautiful Green City, gender selection, war and a virus outbreak have brought the ratio of men to women to alarmingly low levels. The government uses terror and technological surveillance to control its people, and women must take multiple husbands to have children as quickly as possible. Yet there are women who resist, women who live in an underground collective and refuse to be part of the system. Secretly protected by the highest echelons of power, they emerge only at night, to provide to the rich and elite of Green City a type of commodity that nobody can buy: intimacy without sex. As it turns out, not even the most influential men can shield them from discovery and the dangers of ruthless punishment. This dystopian novel from one of Pakistan?s most talented writers is a modern-day parable. It takes the patriarchal practices of female seclusion, gender selection and control over women?s bodies, and recasts them to imagine a world of terrifying postreligious authoritarianism.
ISBN: 9789698729806
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: A NOVEL
Author: BINA SHAH -
THE BEGUM AND THE DASTAN
₨ 1,195In 1897 in the princely state of Sherpur, Feroza Begum, beautiful and wilful, defies her family to attend the sawani celebrations at Nawab Shams Ali Khan’s Benazir Palace. Feroza is kidnapped and detained in the Nawab’s glittering harem, her husband is forced to divorce her, and her family disowns her. Reluctantly, Feroza marries the Nawab, and is compelled to negotiate the glamour and sordidness of the harem.
In the bazaar chowk, Kallan Mirza, a skilled dastango, spins a hauntingly familiar tale of a despotic sorcerer, Tareek Jaan, and his grand illusory city, the Tilism-e-Azam, where women are confined in underground basements. As Kallan descends deeper into an opium addiction, the boundaries of fantasy and reality begin to blur.
And in the present day, Ameera listens to Dadi narrating the tale of Feroza Begum, Ameera’s great-grandmother. Confined to her house because her parents haven’t paid her school fees, Ameera takes comfort from Dadi’s story. As her world disintegrates, she is compelled to ask herself if anything has changed for Sherpur’s women.
ISBN: 9789698729622
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: TARANA HUSAIN KHAN -
THE PROPHET
₨ 295Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Published in 1923, it has been translated into more than twenty languages, and the American editions alone have sold more than nine million copies. The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. Gibran’s musings are divided into twenty-eight chapters covering such sprawling topics as love, marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, work, joy and sorrow, housing, clothes, buying and selling, crime and punishment, laws, freedom, reason and passion, pain, self-knowledge, teaching, friendship, talking, time, good and evil, prayer, pleasure, beauty, religion, and death
ISBN: 9789698729318
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: KHALIL GIBRAN -
JINNISTAN
₨ 1,295If there’s something Pakistanis love more than December shaadis and desi food, it?s jinn stories. Jinnistan is a gripping collection of South Asian short horrors featuring paranormal entities in all shapes and forms- including the form of a loved one, perhaps your neighbor… even your child. So close the curtains, grab your chai and get ready to read spine-chilling tales based on true events.
ISBN: 9789698729240
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: SCARY STORIES TO TELL OVER CHAI
Author: AYESHA MUZAFFAR -
THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
₨ 795Anne Frank’s diary needs no introduction. This beautifully written memoir of a young girl caught in the middle of one of the most horrific periods of human history, is a testament to the indestructible human will to persevere and survive in the face of the most adverse of circumstances.
ISBN: 9789698729127
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: ANNE FRANK -
READISTAN
₨ 1,695This might be the most important book you will read in your lifetime.
Pakistan’s biggest booktuber, Shah Rukh Nadeem’s heart
Readistan comes from the core of my heart. The book has been designed to ensure that readers enjoy the breathtaking wisdom that is embedded in its words. He has stood on the shoulders of giants to bring you a book which you will enjoy not only reading by your bedside in seclusion but also enjoy discussing its content with your friends, colleagues and family.
Happy Reading!
ISBN: 9786277626037
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: FIFTY OF THE BEST BOOKS COMPRESSED IN ONE
Author: SHAH RUKH NADEEM -
JOURNEY THROUGH PAKISTAN
₨ 6,995A captivating coffee table book, Journey through Pakistan, has been revised and updated by the country?s bestselling author and travel writer, Asif Noorani. It was published by Camerapix in Nairobi and printed in Singapore. Towering mountains, unspoilt beaches, awe-inspiring deserts, lush green fields, pulsating cities, traditional villages and their crafts, lively men, women and children, have all been brilliantly captivated in crisp language and eye-catching photographs in Journey Through Pakistan, all of which in combination makes a great gift for your friends and relatives.
ISBN: 9781904722656
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: ASIF NOORANI -
DEVELOPMENT PATHWAYS
₨ 3,495Development Pathways presents evidence-based comparative analysis of economic and social developments in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh since they gained independence in 1947. Pakistan was further subdivided in 1971 when Bangladesh became independent. In 1947 these countries were mired in poverty, illiteracy, poor health status, underemployment, and rudimentary infrastructure. There was tremendous pessimism about the future economic sustenance of these countries.
The development pathways adopted by each of these countries differed significantly but they each also went through paradigm shifts in their policies in the period 1990 onwards. All three countries started their journey with centrally planned state control of command heights of economy with Pakistan switching back and forth from liberalization, nationalization and once again liberalization. Institutional decay and frequent political changes brought about a major shift from a fast growing economy in the first forty years to becoming a laggard in the recent thirty year period. India adhered to its initial model until 1991 when it abolished License Raj, opened up the economy to the private sector, and attracted Foreign Direct Investment. India has been recording growth rates of 6-7 percent since then.
Bangladesh also started its development journey by following a state-controlled model. However, political stability post 1990, continuity of economic policies across political regimes and liberalization widened the scope of the private sector and moved the growth trajectory significantly upwards.
This study identifies critical success factors, and the risks and pain points for steering the future direction of these economies. This book would be of interest to policy practitioners, opinion makers, academics and researchers, and the students of Development Studies as it takes a multidisciplinary approach rather than a narrow lens of economic analysis.
ISBN: 9786277626198
AUTHOR: ISHRAT HUSAIN, SARAH NIZAMANI, SHAGUFTA SHABBAR, MASOOD AHMED SIDDIQUI
ISBN: 9786277626198
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: INDIA | PAKISTAN | BANGLADESH 1947 – 2022
Author: ISHRAT HUSAIN -
NO EXIT FROM PAKISTAN
₨ 1,995This book tells the story of the tragic and often tormented relationship between the United States and Pakistan. Pakistan’s internal troubles have already threatened U.S. security and international peace, and Pakistan’s rapidly growing population, nuclear arsenal, and relationships with China and India will continue to force it upon America’s geostrategic map in new and important ways over the coming decades. This book explores the main trends in Pakistani society that will help determine its future; traces the wellsprings of Pakistani anti-American sentiment through the history of U.S.-Pakistan relations from 1947 to 2001; assesses how Washington made and implemented policies regarding Pakistan since the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001; and analyzes how regional dynamics, especially the rise of China, will likely shape U.S.-Pakistan relations. It concludes with three options for future U.S. strategy, described as defensive insulation, military-first cooperation, and comprehensive cooperation. The book explains how Washington can prepare for the worst, aim for the best, and avoid past mistakes.
ISBN: 9789698729943
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: AMERICA’S TORTURED RELATIONSHIP WITH ISLAMABAD
Author: DANIEL S. MARKEY -
BETWEEN YOU, ME & THE FOUR WALLS
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ISBN: 9786277626051
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: MONI MOHSIN -
SULTAN: A MEMOIR WASIM AKRAM
₨ 1,595The official autobiography of Wasim Akram, the Sultan of Swing, one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of cricket. For twenty years, Wasim Akram let his cricket do the talking – with his electrifying left-arm pace, his explosive striking as a batsman, and his inspirational leadership. For another twenty years, he kept his own counsel about his cricketing days – full of drama, controversy and even mystery – in a country, Pakistan, that to outsiders is a constant enigma.
Sultan tells the story of cricket’s greatest left-arm bowler, and one of its enduring survivors, who was chosen from the streets of Lahore and groomed by Imran Khan to become champion of the world – he was Man of the Match in the final of the 1992 World Cup which Pakistan won. Along the way were unforgettable rivalries with the legends of his time, from Viv Richards and Ian Botham to Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne. All of this against a backdrop of conspiracy and intrigue over ball tampering and match-fixing, about which Wasim finally sets the story straight.
Sultan provides an unprecedented insight into the life – both on and off the field – of a cricketer who revolutionized the sport with his speed and swing, and a patriot buoyed and burdened by the expectations of one of the game’s most fanatical publics.
ISBN: 9786277626075
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: WASIM AKRAM -
MR AND MRS JINNAH
₨ 1,395A product of intensive and meticulous research in Delhi, Bombay and Karachi and based on first-person accounts and sources, Reddy brings the solitary, misunderstood Jinnah and the lonely, wistful Ruttie to life. A must-read for all those interested in politics, history and the power of an unforgettable love story.
ISBN: 9789698729974
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
Subtitle: THE MARRIAGE THAT SHOOK INDIA
Author: SHEELA REDDY -
HAZRAT JUNAID BAGHDADI R.A
₨ 90ISBN: BP1369
ISBN: BP1369
Publisher: LIBERTY BOOKS
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Author: LIBERTY BOOKS