The army and democracy: Military politics in Pakistan by Aqil Shah

The Army and Democracy provides insight into the military's contentious relationship with Pakistan's
civilian government. Shahidentifies steps for reforming Pakistan's armed forces and reducing its
interference in politics, and sees lessons for fragile democracies striving to bring the military under civilian
control

Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: A Reappraisal by Shahid Amin

Pakistan's Foreign Policy is a penetrating analysis of Pakistan's foreign policy from the time of
Independence in 1947 until the beginning of the new millennium.

Pakistan’s Foreign Policy:1947-2012 A Concise History by Abdul Sattar

This new edition has been updated to provide an insight into the making, implementation, and
consequences of Pakistan's foreign policy from Partition to post-9/11 years. It will facilitate a deeper
understanding of the strategic compulsions that have driven decision-making in Pakistan's national
security and foreign policy. This concise history will be of interest to readers seeking to form an objective
perspective on Pakistan's foreign policy.

A concise history of Pakistan by Muhammad Reza Kazmi

This is a comprehensive one-volume history of Pakistan, a country that lies at the centre of the world's
strategic concerns.

The Political Triangle by K.R. Pillai

Pakistan: A hard country by Anatol Leiven

In the wake of Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, unpoliceable border areas, shelter of the
Afghan Taliban and Bin Laden, and the spread of terrorist attacks by groups based in Pakistan to London,
Bombay and New York, there is a clear need to look further than the simple image of a failed state so
often portrayed in the media, and to see instead a country of immense complexity and importance.
Lieven's profound and sophisticated analysis paves the way for clearer understanding of this remarkable
and highly contradictory country.

Munir Akram on Foreign policy DAWN

Amir Rana on Secteriansim and terrorism, extremism DAWN

Shahid Javed Burki on Economy DAWN

Irfan Hussain on global affairs, Brexit, US-elections DAWN

Ishrat Hussain on economy DAWN

Give this reference while attempting pak-afghan question—It talks about pak’s necessity to achieve
‘strategic depth in Afghanistan’ and to avoid the encirclement by India.

Pakistan’s Relations with Afghanistan and Implications Politics by Vanda Felbab-Brown (National
Bureau of Asian Research)
Conflict or Cooperation? The Role of India and Pakistan in Post-2014 Afghansitan by Stuti Bhatnagar
(South Asian Studies)

Balochistan: The State Versus the Nation by Frederic Grare (Research paper)

For Nuclear:

India, Pakistan and the Bomb-Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia by Sumit Ganguly and Paul
Kapoor

Sumit opined that nuclear weapons have prevented Indo-pak disputes from blossoming into full-scale
war. And Paul Kapoor holds the view that nuclear weapons have been destabilizing force in South Asia
and affects other parts of the region. Two competing theories by two authors.

Islamiyat:
Michael Hart in his book “The 100 : A ranking of the most influential persons in the history” places Holy
Prophet (pbuh) as No.1 personality and states : “he was supremely successful both secular and religious
field”.

Book= Muhammad: The Prophet of our time by Karen Armstrong and says: “Islam is a religion of peace
and its prophet preached tolerance and coexistence”

Tony Blair: “Tolerance is the defining characteristic of Islam”

Book= Rdical Reform: Islamic ethics and liberation by Tariq Ramadan

In this new book he tackles head-on the thorniest of these issues -- namely, the rulings of Islamic jurists
that make Islam seem incompatible with modern, scientifically and technologically advanced, democratic
societies. He argues that it is crucial to find theoretical and practical solutions that will enable Western
Muslims to remain faithful to Islamic ethics while fully living within their societies and their time. He notes
that Muslim scholars often refer to the notion of ijtihad (critical and renewed reading of the foundational
texts) as the only way for Muslims to take up these modern challenges. But, Ramadan argues, in practice
such readings have effectively reached the limits of their ability to serve the faithful in the West as well as
the East. In this book he sets forward a radical new concept of ijtihad, which puts context -- including the
knowledge derived from the hard and human sciences, cultures and their geographic and historical
contingencies -- on an equal footing with the scriptures as a source of Islamic law. This global and
comprehensive approach, he says, seems to be the only way to go beyond the current limits and face up
to the crisis in contemporary Islamic thought: Muslims need a contemporary global and applied ethics.
After setting out this proposal, Ramadan applies his new methodology to several practical case studies
involving controversial issues in five areas: medical ethics, education, economics, marriage and divorce,
culture and creativity. His radical proposal and the conclusions to which it leads him are bound to provoke
discussion and controversy. Muslims and non-Muslims alike will have to contend with Ramadan's new
idea of the very basis of Islam in the modern world.

William Chittick- Islam appeals to different dimensions of human needs such as mind
(intellectual), heart (spiritual) and body (rule and law).
About extremism

Edward de bono= Two types of logic: ‘water logic’ which says that I am right you are wrong…in
absolute terms nothing relative..no room..no space for others. The other is ‘water logic’ which
says that I may be right you may be wrong…room for coexistence.

Jack Miles= The clash of civilization question from Muslim side is whether the Ummah can join
the international community or whether it must incorporate the international community into itself.

Book = Moderation in Islam by S.G.Jillanee.

V.V.V.imp---“The world is supported by 4 things only: The learning of the wise, the justice of the
great, the prayers of the righteous, and the valor of the brave” from Spain

Oxford History of technology= “there are few major technological innovations between 500AD and
1500AD that don’t show some traces of Islamic culture.”

Dictatorship and poverty breeds extremism by Benazir Bhutto in Reconciliation: Islam, democracy
and West.

Bernard Shaw: The genuine Islam

The English writer Bernard Shaw said after the second world war in which more than 30 million people
were killed: If Mohammed was among us now, he would solve all the problems of humanity, while he is
having a cup of coffee.

"If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it
could be Islam."

I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed
in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have
prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is
beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.”