Ahmed, Ishtiaq-

Pakistan the garrison state : origins, evolution, consequences, 1947-2011 / Ishtiaq Ahmed - Oxford University Press, Karachi : 2020 - 494 p.

1. The fortress of Islam: a metaphor for a garrison state
2. British, Americans and soviet attitudes towards the Pakistan scheme
3. The colonial roots of the Pakistan army
4. The first Kashmir war, 1947-1948
5. Wooing the Americans, and civil-military relations
6. The first military takeover
7. The 1965 war
8. Alienation between east and West Pakistan
9. Civil war and Pakistan—India war of 1971
10. The rise and fall of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
11. General Zia braces the fortress of Islam
12. The Afghan jihad
13. Civilian Government and the establishment
14. Vicissitudes of the Musharraf Regime
15. Transition to democracy and proliferation in terrorism
16. The United States prepares for exit
17. The gory end of Osama bin Laden


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