Download or read book First Trip To Islamabad written by Islamabad Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you looking for a beautiful, simple journal, diary or notebook for your trip to Islamabad? This is a blank journal that is a perfect Gift for someone planning their travel to Islamabad in Pakistan. Use it as Notebook, Diary, to Journal or just like any other notebook. Other details include: 120 pages, 6x9, cream paper and a beautiful matte-finished cover. Make sure to look at our other products for more City trip journals.
Download or read book First time Asia written by Lesley Reader and published by Rough Guides. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book to read when considering a first visit to Asia, covering more than twenty first-time destinations, each profile covering the country's main highlights as well as its more unusual attractions. Suggested itineraries, online resources, embassy and tourist information are included together with the practicalities of life on the road. The final chapter, Basics, covers contact addresses and websites for everything from backpack suppliers to travel health clinics.
Download or read book World of Wanderlust written by Brooke Bellamy and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the world’s greatest destinations? Where are the best places to travel solo? From airport fashion to road trip rules, professional traveller Brooke Saward shows us where to go, what to do and how to get that holiday feeling without even leaving home. Full of beautiful photographs that will ignite the imagination and featuring enduring favourites like Paris, New York, and London, this is the book that will inspire you to make every day an adventure.
Download or read book The Rough Guide to First Time Asia written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide First-Time Asia tells you everything you need to know before you go to Asia, from visas and vaccinations to budgets and packing. It will help you plan the best possible trip, with advice on when to go and what not to miss, and how to avoid trouble on the road. You'll find insightful information on what tickets to buy, where to stay, what to eat, how to stay healthy and save money in Asia. The Rough Guide First-Time Asia includes insightful overviews of 21 Asian countries from Bhutan to Vietnam, Bangladesh to Thailand, highlighting the best places to visit with websites, clear maps, suggested reading and budget information. Be inspired by the 'things not to miss' section whilst useful contact details will help you plan your route. All kinds of advice and anecdotes from travellers who've been there and done it will make travelling stress-free. The Rough Guide First-Time Asia has everything you need to get your journey underway.
Download or read book Out of Afghanistan written by Diego Cordovez and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United Nations mediator for the Afghanistan conflict and a foreign policy analyst provide their own interpretations of the negotiations that helped to end the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. They describe how the ideological hard line taken by the Reagan administration prolonged the conflict.
Download or read book Killing the Cranes written by Edward Girardet and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few reporters have covered Afghanistan as intrepidly and humanely as Edward Girardet. Now, in a gripping, personal account, Girardet delivers a story of that nation's resistance fighters, foreign invaders, mercenaries, spies, aid workers, Islamic extremists, and others who have defined Afghanistan's last thirty years of war, chaos, and strife. As a young foreign correspondent, Girardet arrived in Afghanistan just three months prior to the Soviet invasion in 1979. Over the next decades, he trekked hundreds of miles across rugged mountains and deserts on clandestine journeys following Afghan guerrillas in battle as they smuggled French doctors into the country, and as they combated each other as well as invaders. He witnessed the world's greatest refugee exodus, the bitter Battle for Kabul in the early 1990s, the rise of the Taliban, and, finally, the US-led Western military and recovery effort that began in 2001. Girardet's encounters with key figures-including Ahmed Shah Massoud, the famed "Lion of Panjshir" assassinated by al Qaeda two days before 9/11, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, an Islamic extremist massively supported by the Americans during the 1980s only to become one of today's most ruthless anti-Western insurgents, and Osama bin Laden-shed extraordinary light on the personalities who have shaped the nation, and its current challenges, from corruption and narcotics trafficking to selfish regional interests. Killing the Cranes provides crucial insights into why the West's current involvement has turned into such a disaster, not only rekindling a new insurgency, but squandering billions of dollars on a recovery process that has shown scant success.
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Download or read book Amir Khan written by Amir Khan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-07 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of a boxing superstar and Olympic and world champion 'Khan is extraordinary ... To many ... the figure of an Olympic champion turned political icon suggests Muhammad Ali' OBSERVER Amir Khan is a hard-working, twenty-first-century hero: a standard bearer for his Pakistani heritage, his Lancashire upbringing and the future of British boxing. At just seventeen he won silver at the 2004 Olympics in Athens and when he turned professional in 2005 he won his first fight in 109 seconds. Tickets to his fights sold out in hours and he was watched by millions on prime-time television. But his feet were still firmly on the ground - he lived at home with his parents in Bolton, fasts in the holy month of Ramadan and could sometimes be spotted helping out at his uncle and auntie's curry house. Here he tells his story: of a boy from Bolton who just happens to be a world-class boxer.
Download or read book Worthy Fights written by Leon Panetta and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon Panetta has had two of the most consequential careers of any American public servant in the past fifty years. His first, beginning as an army intelligence officer and including a run as one of Congress's most powerful and respected members, lasted 35 years and culminated in his role as Clinton's budget czar and White House chief of staff. He then 'retired' to establish the Panetta Institute,to serve on the Iraq Study Group; and to protect the California coast. In 2009 he accepted what many said was a thankless task: returning to public office as the director of the CIA.
Download or read book Jerry Catch Your Plane on Time written by Gerald P. Shea and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jerry, Catch your Plane on Time - Travels to the Middle East and Beyond - contains a series of personal anecdotes and stories observed and participated in by Jerry Shea, former President and CEO of the International Road Federation and the International Road Education Foundation. It takes place over a 30 year period and highlights visits to some 12 countries in the Middle East, South Asia, Europe, South America and Africa. These include trips to Botswana, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria, Argentina, Sri Lanka, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Pakistan, Jordan, Egypt, the Sinai and Turkey. Jerry wanted to tell these stories so that his grandchildren would remember him and his career in the international road and highway fields.
Download or read book Call of the Wild written by Graeme Membrey and published by Brolga Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An energetic and enthralling series of encounters with warlords, mujahideen fighters and hardy deminers that will take you into the life of an Australian soldier sent alone into the wilds of Afghanistan. In 1991, following the Soviet-Afghan war, Graeme Membrey left the comfort of his home in Perth to work for an Afghan NGO in the United Nations demining program. Along with his pregnant wife, he travelled to Karachi, then to Islamabad, before settling in the city of Peshawar where he was to spend a year closely working with deminers in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Away from the front line, this book deals with the less-told story of what is left behind after war ends. With humour and humility, Graeme Membrey recounts a variety of incidents and surprising stories of his time in this part of the world. Behind the anecdotes lies the story of friendship and the universal connexion between humans in spite of language barriers and cultural differences.
Download or read book The Walking Whales written by J. G. M. Hans Thewissen and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-04-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A ... first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from herbivorous forest-dwelling ancestors that resembled tiny deer to carnivorous monsters stalking lakes and rivers and to serpentlike denizens of the coast. Thewissen reports on his discoveries in the wilds of India and Pakistan, weaving a narrative that reveals the day-to-day adventures of fossil collection, enriching it with local flavors from South Asian culture and society"--Dust jacket flap.
Download or read book Giovanna Silva Paolo Rosselli Islamabad Today written by Paolo Rosselli and published by . This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, the architecture practice Ponti Fornaroli Rosselli was commissioned to design and build part of the Ministries area of the new capital of West Pakistan, Islamabad, which was under construction according to Constantinos Doxiadis and Robert Matthew?s master plan. Fifteen hundred architecture drawings and less than two years later, the buildings were completed. At some moments, five thousand workers were on site at the same time. Project manager Alberto Rosselli declared that the idea was not to transfer their Western knowledge to Pakistan, but to create a new Pakistan. Moved by this incredible project, where the personal stories of the Ponti and Rosselli families crossed paths against a backdrop of architectural and political history, Giovanna Silva traveled to Islamabad in 2020 with Paolo Rosselli, nephew of Gio Ponti and son of Alberto Rosselli. It was a journey through architecture, personal memories, and a city built in the desert as a future capital of a new world, against the beautiful scenery of the Margalla Hills. Silva?s photographs show the buildings in their everyday public function, with a focus on the spaces as performed by their users. The book also features archival images of the building site and construction, and a narrative text by Paolo Rosselli tracing the story of the project and his reactions during his first visit to his father?s work in Islamabad.
Download or read book The Caravan written by Thomas Hegghammer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces Abdallah Azzam's path from a West Bank village to the battlefields of Afghanistan and explains why jihadism went global.
Download or read book Pakistan Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nine Lives of Pakistan Dispatches from a Precarious State written by Declan Walsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.
Download or read book Around Rakaposhi written by Brian H. Jones and published by Brian H Jones. This book was released on 2010-05-30 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of two and a half years of living, working, and travelling among the Muslim people of the Karakoram and Himalayan regions of northern Pakistan
