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 is a guide to the city Taxila which situated at the head of the Sind Sagar Doab between the Indus and Jhelum rivers and in the shadow of the Murree hills where they die down into the western plain

This volume of the book covers the last thirty months of Ayub regime, a fateful period in Pakistan`s history. Here Bhutto is the crusader, the revolutionary, the people`s fearless leader who liberated the country from the dark night of oppression

A patchwork of impressions and reminiscences, hopes and aspirations. That is what this wonderful book is about, but only in part. The author, Mariam Salam, has also skillfully interwoven the amazing and inspiring account of her transition from West to East; all the devotion, travail and sacrifices it entailed; all the delights, too

Afganistan's political instability and the security satuation, ridden with continued violence and bloodshed for the last three and half decades, have impacted on all aspects of life in Pakistan, more than any other country in the world