Shanghai Almanac is a systematic record that illustrates different aspects of Shanghai Municipality, concerning its geographical facts, the political, economical and cultural events as well as the social situation. This large-scale book, a literature of data, is the yearly book under the special series of state press and publication. Shanghai Almanac 2011 records and illustrates the overal conditions of Shanghai in 2010. By retaining a fundamental stability in the structure of the former edition, the 2011 English version has inserted the account of those events that newly appeared in 2010

Written by Abdul Sattar, a former foreign minister and foreign secretary, the book comprises 329 pages and documents the country history. It provides a factual basis for objective appraisal and helps identify lessons useful to future policy makers

Set in the turbulent days of the founding of Hong Kong in the 1840s, Tai Pan is the story of Dirk Struan, the ruler-the Tai-Pan - of the most powerful trading company in the Far East. He is also a pirate, an opium smuggler, a master manipulator of men, a ruthless intriguer and a mighty lover

A wet afternoon is Khalid Hasan’s superlative translation of some of Saadat Hasan Manto’s greatest works, his short stories and the sketches he wrote of the people around him. Manto penned stories that brought to the fore the hypocrisy in our hearts with great contrast. He has been condemned ever since because he chose to depict this through the characters he saw all around him-the pimps, courtesans and prostitutes that were the soul of the Bombay he inhabited. Despite this seemingly far removed social milieu, what he grapples with is hardly alien to more mainstream society

This book covers a relatively narrow canvas. It is a footnote to the early years of Pakistan`s diplomatic history. There are no disclosures made and no secrets unveiled. Much of what is written here is known or surmised. These memoirs span a period of nearly sixty years, from the thirties to the nineties - decades of tumult and trasformation that saw wars and cataclysms, the fall of empires and the decline of ideologies

This book is a penetrating analysis of Pakistan's foreign policy from the time of Independence in 1947 until the beginning of the new millennium. The formulation of Pakistan's foreign policy has been discussed from a fresh perspective. The author has tried to pragmatically examine the structural failures of Pakistan's foreign policy-making process and calls for new thinking on various aspects of Pakistan's foreign policy

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Pakistan Almanac 2004 - 2005 is the most updated documents of facts and figures with depth and insight. This is a book of permanent reference value for all those who seek total and sectoral information on Pakistan. This is an Encyclopedia in its own right that reports every aspects of land, peole, life and culture pertaining to Pakistan

In 1988 a collection of Agha Shahi speeches and articles, a Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister of Pakistan from 1977 to 1982, was published as Pakistan`s Security and Foreign Policy. Agha Shahi has provided an excellent basis for debating the foreign policy issues of today. Many puzzling aspects of Pakistani policies become clearer after a reading of these papers