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Forced into the spotlight by the international fight against terrorism , Pakistan has become a global player and an acknowledged nuclear power , today struggling to balance Western influence with internal demands. It stands poised at the very crosscurrent of history . Lawrence Ziring , political scientist and long time observer of the Pakistan scene, combines all the silent facts with asute analysis to track Pakistan`s Historyfrom the pre-partition era , through independence in 1947, to its changing role in the post 9/11 world. Definitive , readable and uncompromising , this new account is not a glib survey, but a roadmap through a rocky past, openiong on to an uncertain future. Readers will find in this book all the historical and political inisight they may need in their search for answers to the questions burning in the minds regrading International Powers and Pakistani citizens alike: Whither Pakistan?
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