Pakistan From Jinnah To Sharif

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This book examines the dominant concerns of historical and political facts from Mohammad Ali Jinnah to Nawaz Sharif the Prime Minister of Pakistan. An authentic rather a magnum opus book ever made on these issues.

The overwhelming newly elected Pakistan's Prime Minister described we must go down our knees and bow before Allah. A country where the President and the army are more powerful than the elected head, Mian Mohammed Nawaz Sharif can hardly afford to count on just the support of the people. "He will constantly need the blessings of Allah", as one of his aides put it. Indeed, Sharif realises that the general election was perhaps the easiest battle won.

All these historical and political facts make Pakistan: Jinnah to Sharif an interesting study. This book serves the purpose of both the layman and the historians alike.

M.K. Akbar has had a brilliant academic career. In 1965 he passed M.A. in Political Science and was awarded the University Gold Medal for standing first.

Akbar, a journalist, philanthropist and a socio-political analyst has had several books on his credit. He is an internationally recognised authority on the Far East and for the past two decades, has been serving as an adviser and consultant to various organisations in numerous capacities.

Pakistan is the second-largest nation of the South Asian subcontinent, one-fourth the size of India. It lies in the Indus River Valley, between the mountainous border with Afghanistan-through which comes the famous Khyber Pass-on the north-west, and on the southeast, the Great Indian Desert and the Rann of Kutch. Long a land of transition between the rugged steppes of Inner Asia and the plenteous plains of India, Pakistan is today a nation caught between the legacy of a glorious imperial past and the project image of an ideal theocratic future. Its goal to become an exemplary modern religious state, a truly Islamic republic, is affirmed by the name Pakistan, given by the Muslim poet Muhammad Iqbal in 1930. It means "Land of the Pure." The cultural heritage of the people of Pakistan can be traced back to the earliest-known urban society in South Asia. Excavations of the ancient cities of Harappa and Mohenjodaro, discovered in 1922, have revealed an impressive civilization dating from 3000 B.C. Distinctive for its knowledge of hydrologics and its use of irrigation to cultivate the valley with the rich waters of the Indus River, it developed an extensive commerce with the emerging civilizations in the Mesopotamian Valley to the west. This civilization survived for 1,500 years. Patterns of agriculture, craft, and commerce have evolved in this land over many centuries. They persist in the social and economic life of Pakistan to this day.

**Contents and Sample Pages**