Pakistan + Pakistan history

Book Reviews

• Sabine Felmy: The Voice of the Nightingale
  A Personal Account of Wakhi Culture in Hunza
• John Harris: Much Sounding of Bugles
  The Siege of Chitral, 1895
• J. Hussain: A History of the Peoples of Pakistan
  Towards Independence
• Roedad Khan: Pakistan - A Dream Gone Sour
  - a high-ranking civil servant looks back
• Anatol Lieven: Pakistan: A Hard Country
  - a broad-ranging survey of its contemporary politics
• Andrew Robinson: The Indus
  - a mysterious "lost" civilisation
• Khushwant Singh: Train to Pakistan*
  - one of the classic novels of Partition
• James W. Spain: The Way of the Pathans; The Pathan Borderland
  - hospitality, revenge, and sanctuary in Pakistan and Afghanistan
  - an ethnic group of 20 million, on the Pakistan/Afghanistan border
• Lawrence Ziring: Pakistan in the Twentieth Century
  A Political History

See also: Central Asia | India

I spent three weeks in Pakistan in 1999, visiting North West Frontier Province and the Northern Areas with a geological field expedition.